Chrysosplenium wrightii

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|genus = Chrysosplenium

|species = wrightii

|authority = Franch. & Sav.

|synonyms = Chrysosplenium alternifolium var. wrightii (Franch. & Sav.) Sutô

|synonyms_ref = [http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Chrysosplenium+wrightii The Plant List]

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Chrysosplenium wrightii, or Wright's golden saxifrage, is a plant species native to northwestern North America and northeastern Asia. It grows on tundra and along stream banks at elevations up to 2300 m in British Columbia, Yukon, Alaska, the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, and in eastern Siberia. The plant was first described in 1878 as being from Japan. This was based on material collected along the Sea of Okhotsk presumably either Sakhalin Island or one of the Kuril Islands, parts of Japan at the time but now in the Russian Federation.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6466629#page/360/mode/1up Franchet, Adrien René & Savatier, Paul Amedée Ludovic. 1878. Enumeratio Plantarum in Japonia Sponte Crescentium 2(2): 356].Suto, Tiharu. 1935. Journal of Japanese Botany 11(6): 396.

Two infraspecific taxa have been proposed, both names accepted by The Plant List:{{Cite web |title=Search results — The Plant List |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Chrysosplenium+wrightii |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=www.theplantlist.org}}

• Chrysosplenium wrightii var. beringanum (Rose) H.Hara, from St. Paul Island in AlaskaHara, Hiroshi. Journal of the Faculty of Science: University of Tokyo, Section 3, Botany 7: 63. 1957.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30234422#page/337/mode/1up Rose, Joseph Nelson. 1897. Botanical Gazette 23: 275.]
• Chrysosplenium wrightii subsp. saxatile (Khokhr.) Vorosch., from RussiaVoroschilov, Vladimir Nikolaevich. 1991. Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskii n.s., 96: 133.Khokhrjakov, Andrej Pavlovich. 1973. Byull. Glavn. Bot. Sada 88: 45.

Chrysosplenium wrightii is an herb reproducing by means of stolons running along the surface of the ground. Flowering stalks are up to 16 cm tall, bearing a cyme of up to 30 flowers. Flowers are yellow, purple, or orange, usually with purple spots.{{Cite web |title=Chrysosplenium wrightii in Flora of North America @ efloras.org |url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250065925 |access-date= |website=www.efloras.org}}Cody, W. J. 1996. Flora of Yukon Territory i–xvii, 1–669. NRC Research Press, Ottawa.Welsh, S. L. 1974. Anderson's Flora of Alaska and Adjacent Parts of Canada i–xvi, 1–724. Brigham Young University Press, Provo.{{Cite web |title=Bering Sea Water-carpet, Wright's Golden-saxifrage: Chrysosplenium wrightii (Synonym: Chrysosplenium alternifolium var. wrightii) |url=http://science.halleyhosting.com/nature/denali/flora/5/saxi/chrysosplenium/wrightii.htm |access-date= |website=science.halleyhosting.com}}