Heuchera cylindrica

Alpine alumroot

Family: Saxifragaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Alpine alumroot is a California native perennial found in the Modoc Plateau in rocky banks and slopes at elevations of 1,400 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces cream-white to green flowers with pink-tipped calyx lobes in dense, spike-like inflorescences. Growing with stems 8.5 to 55 centimeters tall that are glandular to stiff-hairy, it forms compact clumps in rocky mountain terrain. Its leaves have petioles 1 to 9 centimeters long, with broadly ovate blades generally less than 3 centimeters wide, moderately 3 to 5-lobed, and typically truncate or slightly heart-shaped. The small, delicate flowers lack petals and feature stamens shorter than the calyx lobes.

Habitat: Rocky banks, slopes

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: 1400-3000 m

Bioregions: MP

California counties: Tulare, Modoc, Mono, Siskiyou

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.