Common name: Grass-of-Parnassus
Scientific name: Parnassia palustris 梅花草
Genus: Parnassia 梅花草屬*
Family: Family: Celastraceae 衛矛科, spindle tree, staff tree, staff vine, bittersweet family
Remarks*: It is formerly placed in Parnassiaceae 梅花草科, grass-of-parnassus family or Saxifragaceae 虎耳草科, saxifrage family. When the APG III system was published in 2009, Parnassiaceae was treated as subfamily Parnassioideae 梅花草亞科 of an expanded family of Celastraceae.
Origin: native
Date: 16th July
375 An erect, glabrous perennial.
376 Flowering stems to 30cm.
288 Flowering stalk with single leaf near base. Basal leaves cordate, 1-5cm.
294 The underside of the leaf.
337 Flower bud. Solitary flower.
293 Side view showing the winged flowering stalk and the sepals.
287 The sepals.
333 5 white petals 7-12mm, 5 yellowish staminodes (sterile stamens), 5 stamens with anthers folding towards the center now.
340 5 large distinctive yellowish staminodes (sterile stamens), the five stamens had the anthers dropped already, revealing the style and the yellow stigma inside.
379 This flower still have one anther attached to one stamen.
376 fruiting
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