Parnassia fimbriata

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Celastrales

Familia: Celastraceae
Subfamilia: Parnassioideae
Genus: Parnassia
Sectio: P. sect. Parnassia
Species: Parnassia fimbriata
Varieties: P. f. var. hoodiana – P. f. var. intermedia
Name

Parnassia fimbriata K.D.Koenig in K.D.Koenig & Sims, Ann. Bot. 1(2): 391. 1804.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America
Alaska, USA (California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington State, Wyoming), Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Northern Territories, Yukon)

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References

K.D.Koenig in K.D.Koenig & Sims (1804) Annals of Botany (Edited by König & Sims) 1 (2): 391.

Links

Hassler, M. 2019. Parnassia fimbriata. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 October 05. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Parnassia fimbriata in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 October 05. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Parnassia fimbriata. Published online. Accessed: October 05 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Parnassia fimbriata. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 05 October 2019.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Parnassia fimbriata in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 08-Apr-12.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System online database ITIS TSN:24209

Vernacular names
English: Fringed grass of Parnassus

Parnassia fimbriata is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae known by the common name fringed grass of Parnassus. It is native to western North America from Alaska and northwestern Canada to the southern Rocky Mountains, where it is a plant of alpine and subalpine environments.

It is a perennial herb producing an erect flowering stem from a patch of basal leaves. The leaf has a rounded blade at the end of a long petiole, the leaf reaching a total of up to 16 centimeters long. The inflorescence may be up to 40 centimeters tall and consists of a mostly naked peduncle with one clasping bract midway up.

The single flower has five small jagged sepals behind five veined, fringed white petals each roughly a centimeter long. At the center of the flower are five stamens and five staminodes with edges of many narrow, round-tipped lobes.