Range in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago wide-spread. Common, or rare, or uncommon. Ecology and habitat. These species he considered to have a vertical rhizome. The primary root dies early and numerous adventitious roots develop.
New shoots develop in the axils of the upper leaves.
Chrysosplenium, S. cernua, S. hirculus , and S. rivularis . Species in which the main stem is vertical and bears a close rosette of leaves and many adventitious roots. The stem dies away completely after flowering. Lateral shoots arise from the leaf-axils in no fixed order and develop more or less horizontally along the ground for some distance, terminating in a new rosette, e.g. S. paniculata and S. flagellaris . Species with a many headed rhizome and a primary root that remains alive for a long time.