Chrysosplenium glechomifolium (also, C. glechomaefolium) is a species of flowering plant in the saxifrage family known as the Pacific golden saxifrage. This plant is native to the moist coastline of western North America from British Columbia to northern California. It is a small plant with lush green foliage, bearing rounded, dully-toothed leaves and shiny green leaflike flowers. It is an uncommon plant which grows in swamps and forest understory and in the shade of taller plants.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Pacific golden-saxifrage being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Chrysosplenium formosanum
- Chrysosplenium flagelliferum
- Chrysosplenium kamtschaticum
- Chrysosplenium oppositifolium
- Chrysosplenium japonicum
- Chrysosplenium americanum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Saxifragales
- Family
- Saxifragaceae
- Genus
- Chrysosplenium
- Species
- Chrysosplenium glechomifolium
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