| Family | SAXIFRAGACEAE |
| Genus species | Saxifraga austromontana Wiegand sect. Trachyphyllum |
| Bibliography | Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 27: 389 (1900) |
| Native Range | w. Canada to wc. USA |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | grassland and rocks |
| Altitude | 500-4500m |
| Description | densely caespitose, glabrous, leaves thick, rigid, crowded, linear-oblong, acute, tipped with white awn, ciliate, flowers numerous in cyme, petals punctate |
| Size | 7-20cm |
| Color | white |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained 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 | Ciliaria austromontana (Wiegand) W.A.Weber Leptasea austromontana (Wiegand) Small Saxifraga bronchialis ssp. austromontana (Wiegand) Piper Saxifraga bronchilais var. austromontana (Wiegand) M.Peck Saxifraga cognata E.Nelson |
| Territory | 7 Northern America 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado, IDA Idaho, MNT Montana, ORE Oregon, WAS Washington, WYO Wyoming) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (UTA Utah) 77 South-Central U.S.A. (NWM New Mexico) |