SAXIFRAGA VIRGINIENSIS Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. / : 269. /803.
Represents one of the most variable and perplexing species of the genus Saxifraga, but notwithstanding its variability in habit, size and flowers, there are two characters which serve to separate it from its relatives in western North America, namely, the triangular triangular-ovate or rarely almost lanceolate acute or acutish calyx-segments, and the narrowly elliptic or elliptic-spatulate ob tuse or acute (rarely if ever notched) petals.
While collecting in the canon below the Falls of the Yadkin river in North Carolina last April, I found unusually well devel oped plants of Saxifrage? Utiginiensis ranging from four to five deci meters in height, but more remarkable was the great quantity of small bulblets produced by the subterranean portions of the plants, and also the numerous offsets. The same features were noticed in specimens gathered on Dunn's mountain in the same state.