Heuchera maxima
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| Heuchera maxima Greene |
Heuchera maxima is a species of flowering plant in the saxifrage family known by the common names island alumroot and Jill-of-the-Rocks. It is endemic to three of the eight Channel Islands of California, where it grows on cliffs. It is also cultivated as an attractive garden plant. This is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing a broad patch of large, rounded, multilobed green leaves with long petioles and a fringe of hairs along the edges. It produces an erect inflorescence up to 60 centimeters tall with many clusters of hairy, glandular flowers. Each flower is rounded with fleshy white or pink lobes and tiny petals curling away from the center. The protruding stamens are tipped with large anthers.
