Youth-on-Age

Tolmiea menziesii

The plant "Tolmiea menziesii" is a member of the genus "Tolmiea". It is known by the common names piggyback plant, youth on age, thousand mothers, and pick-a-back-plant. It is perennial plant native to the West Coast of North America and occurs from California north through British Columbia to Alaska.
Youth on Age  Geotagged,Spring,Tolmiea menziesii,United States

Appearance

"Tolmiea menziesii" has hairy, five to seven-lobed, toothed leaves and a capsule fruit containing spiny seeds

It bears many small flowers in a loose raceme. Each flower consists of a tubular purple-green to brown-green calyx and four linear or subulate red-brown petals, about twice the length of the sepals.

It has unusual reproductive habits. It grows plantlets from the petiole near the base of each leaf. The plantlets drop off, fall in the soil, and take root there. It will also reproduce by rhizomes and by seeds.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderSaxifragales
FamilySaxifragaceae
GenusTolmiea
SpeciesT. menziesii