| Family | SAXIFRAGACEAE |
| Genus species | Micranthes nivalis (L.) Small sect. Dermasea |
| Bibliography | N. Amer. Fl. [N.L. Britton & al., eds.] 22: 136 (1905) |
| Native Range | Subarctic and Temperate Northern Hemisphere |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | tundra |
| Description | leaves petiolate, ovate to suborbiculate, thick, coriaceous, serrate or dentate, ciliate, adaxially glabrous, abaxially brown hirsute, flowers numerous in capitate thyrsus |
| Size | 5-20cm |
| Color | white, pinkish |
| Bloom | spring |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C division after flowering; cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Dermasea nivalis (L.) Haw. Micranthes kumlienii Small Robertsonia nivalis (L.) Link Saxifraga kumlienii (Small) Fedde Saxifraga longiscapa D.Don Saxifraga nigricans Willd. ex Sternb. Saxifraga nivalis L. Saxifraga nivalis var. elatior Hartm. Saxifraga nivalis var. genuina Abrom. Saxifraga nivalis f. labradorica (Fernald) Polunin Saxifraga nivalis var. labradorica Fernald Saxifraga nivalis f. longipetiolata Engl. & Irmsch. Saxifraga nivalis var. novokschonovii Popov Saxifraga obtusa Nasaroff Saxifraga primulifolia Willd. ex Sternb. |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, FOR Fřroyar, GRB Great Britain, ICE Iceland, IRE Ireland, NOR Norway, SVA Svalbard, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (POL Poland) 14 Eastern Europe (RUE East European Russia, RUN North European Russia, RUW Northwest European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, QUE Québec) |