Common name:
Mossy saxifrage
Family:
Scientific name:
Saxifraga hypnoides
Main flower color:
Range:
Scotland, Wales, and northern England
Height:
Up to 20 cm; ascending flowering stems and longer, prostrate non-flowering stems
Habitat:
Rocky places, damp, bare grassland
Flowers:
Up to 15 mm across, with five ovate white petals, crossed by greenish veins towards the base, and five short green, pointed sepals, visible from above between the petals. Flowers are produced in small clusters, on slender stalks
Leaves:
Basal leaves (on flowering shoots) are around 1 cm long, divided into three pointed, linear lobes, while leaves of non-flowering stems are undivided, and more closely-spaced, but otherwise similar
Season:
May to July
Rarity:
★★★★★
