E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of BC

Romanzoffia sitchensis Bong.
Sitka romanzoffia (Sitka mistmaiden)
Hydrophyllaceae (Waterleaf family)

Introduction to Vascular Plants

General:
Perennial herb from a short stem base and a bulbous base; stems several, ascending, glabrous, 10-30 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves numerous, the blades round to kidney-shaped, 1-4 cm wide, palmately veined, shallowly lobed or coarsely toothed, stalks 1-6 cm long with expanded, overlapped thickened bases, these woolly-hairy on the margins; stem leaves similar, few, reduced, near the base of the stem.

Flowers:
Inflorescence of several stalked flowers in a loose, elongate, terminal cluster; corollas white, usually with yellow centres, 6-11 mm long and wide; calyces shorter than the clefts of the corollas, the lobes linear-lanceolate, glabrous or minutely glandular.

Fruits:
Capsules, 2-chambered; seeds numerous.

Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.

Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Ecological Framework for Romanzoffia sitchensis

The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)

Site Information	Value / Class
Site Information	Avg	Min	Max
Elevation (metres)	504	30	2030
Slope Gradient (%)	29	0	85
Aspect (degrees) [0 - N; 90 - E; 180 - S; 270 - W]	57	8	315
Soil Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric]	4	3	6
Modal Nutrient Regime Class	D
# of field plots species was recorded in:	18
Modal BEC Zone Class	CWH
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in	CWH(10), MH(4)
Source: Klinkenberg 2013

Origin Status	Provincial Status	BC List (Red Blue List)	COSEWIC
Native	S5	Yellow	Not Listed

BC Ministry of Environment: BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer.

1. Plants bearing well-developed, brown-woolly tubers at the base; rare in the lowland zone...................................R. tracyi

1. Plant without tubers, but the leaf stalks strongly dilated and overlapping to form a bulbous base; infrequent to frequent in the upper montane to alpine zones..................................R. sitchensis

Source: Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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