| Family | SAXIFRAGACEAE |
| Genus species | Micranthes tenuis (Wahlenb.) Small sect. Dermasea |
| Bibliography | N. Amer. Flora [N.L.Britton & al., eds.] 22: 136 (1905) |
| Native Range | Subarctic |
| Primary Biome | Subarctic |
| Habitat | tundra |
| Description | leaves ovate to oval, obtuse or rounded, crenate, ciliate, abruptly tapered to petiolate base, cymules few flowered, producing terminal corymbose cyme |
| Size | 5-12cm |
| Color | white, pinkish |
| Bloom | spring, early summer |
| 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 | Saxifraga nivalis var. tenuior Wahlenb. Saxifraga nivalis var. tenuis Wahlenb. Saxifraga nivalis ssp. tenuis (Wahlenb.) Braun-Blanq. Saxifraga pauciflora Sternb. Saxifraga sochondensis Maximova Saxifraga stellaris var. comosa Hartm. Saxifraga tenuis (Wahlenb.) Harry Sm. ex Lindm. |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, FOR Fřroyar, ICE Iceland, NOR Norway, SVA Svalbard, SWE Sweden) 14 Eastern Europe (RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, MAG Magadan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, QUE Québec) |