| Family | SAXIFRAGACEAE |
| Genus species | Saxifraga cernua L. sect. Mesogyne |
| Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 1: 403 (1753) |
| Native Range | Subarctic & Subalpine Northern Hemisphaere |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Altitude | 0-5500m |
| Description | stems thin, leaves reniform, with 5-7 acute lobes, lower leaves long petiolate, upper leaves axillary with small bulbils, flower 7-12mm across, solitary |
| Size | 5-20cm |
| Color | white |
| Bloom | 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 | Lobaria cernua (L.) Haw. Miscopetalum cernuum (L.) Gray Saxifraga bulbifera Oeder Saxifraga cernua f. bulbillosa Engl. & Irmsch. Saxifraga cernua f. cryptopetala Rosend. Saxifraga cernua var. exilioides Polunin Saxifraga cernua f. exilioides (Polunin) Scoggan Saxifraga cernua var. genuina Abrom. Saxifraga cernua var. humilis Lange Saxifraga cernua var. latibracteata Fernald & Weath. Saxifraga cernua f. latibracteata (Fernald & Weath.) Polunin Saxifraga cernua var. linnaeana Ser. Saxifraga cernua f. phyllomana Porsild ex Engl. & Irmsch. Saxifraga cernua f. ramosa J.G.Gmel. Saxifraga cernua var. simplicissima Ledeb. Saxifraga simulata Small |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, GRB Great Britain, ICE Iceland, NOR Norway, SVA Svalbard, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, CZE Czechoslovakia, POL Poland, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (FRA France) 13 Southeastern Europe (ITA Italy, ROM Romania) 14 Eastern Europe (RUE East European Russia, RUN North 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, PRM Primorye, SAK Sakhalin) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan) 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHI Inner Mongolia, CHM Manchuria, CHQ Qinghai, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan, KOR Korea) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (WHM West Himalaya) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia, MAN Manitoba) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado, IDA Idaho, MNT Montana, WAS Washington, WYO Wyoming) 74 North-Central U.S.A. (MIN Minnesota, SDA South Dakota) 75 Northeastern U.S.A. (NWH New Hampshire) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (NEV Nevada, UTA Utah) 77 South-Central U.S.A. (NWM New Mexico) |