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Chrysosplenium wrightii
Also called Wright's Golden Carpet
Chrysosplenium wrightii, or Wright's golden saxifrage, is a plant species native to northwestern North America and northeastern Asia. It grows on tundra and along stream banks at elevations up to 2300 m in British Columbia, Yukon, Alaska, the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, and in eastern Siberia. The plant was first described in 1878 as being from Japan. This was based on material collected along the Sea of Okhotsk presumably either Sakhalin Island or one of the Kuril Islands, parts of Japan at the time but now in the Russian Federation.
Two infraspecific taxa have been proposed, both names accepted by The Plant List:
Alternate-leaved Golden-saxifrage · American golden saxifrage · Stolon Golden Saxifrage · Pacific golden saxifrage · Iowa Golden Saxifrage · Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage · Hairy Golden Saxifrage · Chrysosplenium sinicum · Chrysosplenium tosaense · Chrysosplenium valdivicum · Golden saxifrage
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chrysosplenium wrightii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
