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Romanzoffia sitchensis

Sitka Mistmaid · Sitka Mistmaiden · Sitka Romanzoffia

Family BoraginaceaeGenus Romanzoffia

White five-petalled flowers with yellow centers on thin dark stalks, above round scalloped leaves rooted in a wet rock crevice.
FlowerWalter Siegmund (talk)CC BY-SA 3.0

About the plant

What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.

Habit
perennialPlants of the World Online
Habit
Perennial, Forb/herbPLANTS Database
Flower
WhiteWikipedia
Native range
Alaska, Canada, lower 48 statesPLANTS Database

Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.

Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; PLANTS Database — USDA NRCS; Wikipedia — Wikipedia contributors.

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty Very high Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: light

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 14 days to germinate.

8% germination in 14 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Romanzoffia p. 207Public domain
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Romanzoffia (Hydrophyllaceae). R. sitchensis germ. 70L(8% in 2nd w) and 70D(none). Another sample germ. in April from seed sown outdoors in March suggesting that this may be another species that germinates either under light or oscillating temperatures. -
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Romanzoffia p. 207. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.

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