Saxifraga cernua
Saxifraga cernua, the drooping saxifrage, nodding saxifrage or bulblet saxifrage, is a flower common all over the High Arctic. It stretches further south in mountainous areas of the Alps, Norway, Iceland, Siberia and Alaska.
It grows to 10-20 cm tall, the stem having 3-7 leaves. The basal and lower stern leaves are kidney-shaped, 3-5 lobed on long petioles. The flowers are mostly single, terminal, petals white, much longer than the sepals. Reproduction by means of brownish-red bulbils in the axils of the upper stem leaves.
This plant grows in moist sandy and mossy places, on ledges and in snow beds.
It became a protected species in the UK in 1975 under the Conservation of Wild Creatures and Wild Plants Act.
