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Heuchera americana - (image 1 of 5)

Taxonomy

Family: Saxifragaceae

Habitat

Dry upland woods.

Associates

Distribution

CT to GA, west to southern Ontario, southern MI, IN, southern IL, and eastern OK.

Morphology

Herbaceous perennial; scape 40-140 cm, with a few small, scale-like bracts; petioles glabrous to minutely glandular-pubescent, rarely with a few longer spreading hairs; leaves often white-mottled, variously hairy or glabrous, 5-9-lobed with lobes of various depths, often pentagonal in outline, the teeth rounded to acute, mucronate; stem glandular in the inflorescence, otherwise glabrous; flowers only slightly oblique, 3-7 mm, the free part of the hypanthium 0.5-1.5 mm; stamens and style long-exserted; petals spatulate, greenish, white, or pink, entire or with small teeth.

Notes

Flowers April to June, sometimes into July

Wetland indicator: FACU

The leaves of this species are apparently highly variable. The first three images are of plants that were growing in mountains in VA, the last of a plant found in southeastern NY. There are some cultivars with mottled red and white patterns on the leaves.

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

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