Micranthes virginiensisSmall

Virginia saxifrage

WFO wfo-0001299825 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Micranthes virginiensis, photographed by Bruce Cook
fig. a Bruce Cook, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201676503
Micranthes virginiensis, photographed by Clay Gibbons
fig. b Clay Gibbons, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201759507
Micranthes virginiensis, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. c Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 206029022
Micranthes virginiensis, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. d Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205659104
Micranthes virginiensis, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. e Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205336197
Micranthes virginiensis, photographed by Jeff Clark
fig. f Jeff Clark, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200623073
Micranthes virginiensis, photographed by Elizabeth Axley
fig. g Elizabeth Axley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200974890
Micranthes virginiensis, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. h Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197919499

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Flowering n = 2,725 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 2,725 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 26 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Dermasea elongata (Sternb.) Haw.
  • Dermasea pilosa Haw.
  • Micranthes napensis (Small) Small
  • Micranthes pilosa (Haw.) Bush
  • Saxifraga elongata Sternb.
  • Saxifraga napensis Small
  • Saxifraga nivalis Muhl.
  • Saxifraga pilosa Haw.
  • Saxifraga verna Steud.
  • Saxifraga vernalis Willd.
  • Saxifraga virginiana Poit.
  • Saxifraga virginica Nutt.
  • Saxifraga virginiensis Michx.
  • Saxifraga virginiensis f. chlorantha (Oakes) Fernald
  • Saxifraga virginiensis f. cicinnata Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga virginiensis f. elongata Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga virginiensis f. glomerulata Fernald
  • Saxifraga virginiensis f. pentadecandra (W.Stearns) Fernald
  • Saxifraga virginiensis f. plena Eames
  • Saxifraga virginiensis var. chlorantha (Oakes) Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga virginiensis var. chlorantha Oakes
  • Saxifraga virginiensis var. cuneata Farw.
  • Saxifraga virginiensis var. napensis (Small) Jeps.
  • Saxifraga virginiensis var. pentadecandra Sterns

and 2 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.