Heuchera micrantha Douglas ex Lindl.

Herbs caulescent; caudex branched. Flowering stems 6-57 cm, short to long stipitate-glandular or glabrous, viscid. Leaves: petiole glabrous or sparsely to densely short to long stipitate-glandular; blade orbic-ulate to polygonal, shallowly to deeply 5-7(-9)-lobed, 2.5-10 cm, base cordate, lobes rounded, margins dentate, apex rounded or obtuse, surfaces glabrous or short to long stipitate-glandular, viscid. Inflorescences diffuse. Flowers: hypanthium radially symmetric, free to 1.5 mm, greenish white, often tinged with red, obconic to hemispheric, broadly turbinate, or campanulate, 1-4.9 mm, long stipitate-glandular, sometimes short stipitate-glandular proximally; sepals spreading to nearly erect, green-or red-tipped, equal, 0.5-1.8 mm, apex rounded to acute or mucronate; petals often coiled, white or pale pink, oblanceolate, (narrowly clawed), unlobed, 1.6-3.3 mm (2-3 times as long as sepals), margins entire; stamens exserted to 3 mm; styles exserted to 2.5 mm, 0.2-4.2 mm, to 0.1 mm diam. Capsules ovoid, 3-8.5 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. Seeds black, broadly ellipsoid, (not curved), 0.5-0.8 mm.

It is a temperate plant. It grows in gravelly banks and rock crevices. In Canada it grows from low altitudes to sub-alpine regions. It is frost hardy. It suits hardiness zones 5-9.

The leaves are boiled or steamed and eaten. They can be dried and stored. The roots are chopped and added to soups and pies.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.