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Swamp Saxifrage

Saxifrage Pennsylvanica. Saxifrage Family.

One to two feet high. Leaves.--Four to eight inches long; obscurely toothed; narrowed at base into a broad short stem. Flowers.--Small; greenish or reddish; in a large cluster. Calyx.--Five-parted. Corolla.--Of five petals. Stamens.--Ten. Pistil.--One, with two styles.

In boggy meadows and along water-courses this plant is conspicuous in spring. Oftentimes its leaf-stalks as well as its flowers are noticeably tinged with red.