# Chrysosplenium wrightii

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{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|image = Chrysosplenium wrightii (7833503660).jpg
|genus = Chrysosplenium
|species = wrightii
|authority = Franch. & Sav.
|synonyms = ''Chrysosplenium alternifolium'' var. ''wrightii'' <small>(Franch. & Sav.) Sutô</small>
|synonyms_ref = <ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Chrysosplenium+wrightii The Plant List]</ref>
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'''''Chrysosplenium wrightii''''', or '''Wright's golden saxifrage''', is a plant species native to northwestern [North America](/source/North_America) and northeastern [Asia](/source/Asia). It grows on [tundra](/source/tundra) and along stream banks at elevations up to 2300 m in [British Columbia](/source/British_Columbia), [Yukon](/source/Yukon), [Alaska](/source/Alaska), the [Kamchatka Peninsula](/source/Kamchatka_Peninsula) in [Russia](/source/Russia), and in eastern [Siberia](/source/Siberia). The plant was first described in 1878 as being from [Japan](/source/Japan). This was based on material collected along the [Sea of Okhotsk](/source/Sea_of_Okhotsk) presumably either [Sakhalin Island](/source/Sakhalin_Island) or one of the [Kuril Islands](/source/Kuril_Islands), parts of [Japan](/source/Japan) at the time but now in the [Russian Federation](/source/Russian_Federation).<ref name="asdfasdkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk"/><ref>[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].</ref><ref>Suto, Tiharu. 1935. Journal of Japanese Botany 11(6): 396.</ref>

Two infraspecific taxa have been proposed, both names accepted by The Plant List:<ref>{{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}}</ref>

*''Chrysosplenium wrightii'' var. ''beringanum'' <small>(Rose) H.Hara,</small> from [St. Paul Island](/source/St._Paul_Island%2C_Alaska) in Alaska<ref>Hara, Hiroshi. Journal of the Faculty of Science: University of Tokyo, Section 3, Botany 7: 63. 1957.</ref><ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30234422#page/337/mode/1up Rose, Joseph Nelson. 1897. Botanical Gazette 23: 275.]</ref>
*''Chrysosplenium wrightii'' subsp. ''saxatile'' <small>(Khokhr.) Vorosch.,</small> from Russia<ref>Voroschilov, Vladimir Nikolaevich. 1991. Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskii n.s., 96: 133.</ref><ref>Khokhrjakov, Andrej Pavlovich. 1973. Byull. Glavn. Bot. Sada 88: 45.</ref>

''Chrysosplenium wrightii'' is an herb reproducing by means of stolons running along the surface of the ground. Flowering stalks are up to 16&nbsp;cm tall, bearing a cyme of up to 30 flowers. Flowers are yellow, purple, or orange, usually with purple spots.<ref name="asdfasdkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk">{{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}}</ref><ref>Cody, W. J. 1996. Flora of Yukon Territory i–xvii, 1–669. NRC Research Press, Ottawa.</ref><ref>Welsh, S. L. 1974. Anderson's Flora of Alaska and Adjacent Parts of Canada i–xvi, 1–724. Brigham Young University Press, Provo.</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

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Category:Flora of Russia
Category:Flora of Alaska
Category:Flora of British Columbia
Category:Flora of Yukon
Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status

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