Botany

Elmera

Elmera racemosa is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Saxifragaceae. It is the sole species in genus Elmera. Its native range is from British Columbia in south-western Canada to Washington and Oregon in the northwestern United States. The genus is named in honour of Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer (1870–1942), an American botanist and plant collector, it was first published and described in N.L.Britton & al. (eds.), N. Amer. Fl. Vol.22 on page 97 in 1905. The specific epithet of racemosa is derived from 'racemus' meaning cluster. The species has 2 known synonyms; Elmera racemosa var. puberulenta C.L.Hitchc. and Heuchera racemosa S.Watson.

Also on this shelf

See also

• ▸Calla
• ▸Chrismation
• ▸Chimonanthus praecox

Uncatalogued shelf

Text from Wikipedia; plate via Wikimedia Commons. Text CC BY-SA 4.0; plate freely licensed (see Commons). Source record. Images and catalogue data are reproduced from open-access collections.