Saxifraga adscendensL.

ascending saxifragewedgeleaf saxifrage

WFO wfo-0000493870 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Saxifraga adscendens, photographed by J Straka
fig. a J Straka, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-27 / obs. 171201095
Saxifraga adscendens, photographed by J Straka
fig. b J Straka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171200814
Saxifraga adscendens, photographed by J Straka
fig. c J Straka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151504530
Saxifraga adscendens, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. d Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 79907602
Saxifraga adscendens, photographed by Vesa Oikonen
fig. e Vesa Oikonen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 76732567
Saxifraga adscendens, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. f Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 74969963
Saxifraga adscendens, photographed by J Straka
fig. g J Straka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171195410
Saxifraga adscendens, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. h Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143681999

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Native range 34 botanical countries

Regions where Saxifraga adscendens is native: North Caucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, North European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sicilia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Northwest Territories, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Yukon North CaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFinlandFranceGreeceHungaryItalyNorth European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSiciliaSwedenSwitzerlandUkraineAlaskaAlbertaBritish ColumbiaColoradoIdahoMontanaNevadaNorthwest TerritoriesOregonUtahWashingtonWyomingYukon
Native distribution of Saxifraga adscendens, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
North European Russia RUN
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Alberta ABT
British Columbia BRC
Colorado COL
Idaho IDA
Montana MNT
Nevada NEV
Northwest Territories NWT
Oregon ORE
Utah UTA
Washington WAS
Wyoming WYO
Yukon YUK
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 47 in flower of 53 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Saxifraga adscendens observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 47 of 53 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 29 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.

  • Muscaria adscendens (L.) Small
  • Muscaria oregonensis Cockerell
  • Ponista oregonensis Raf.
  • Saxifraga adscendens subsp. oregonensis (Raf.) Bacig.
  • Saxifraga adscendens var. bellardii Sternb.
  • Saxifraga adscendens var. densa Skřivánek
  • Saxifraga adscendens var. discolor (Velen.) Stoj. & Stef.
  • Saxifraga adscendens var. oregonensis (Raf.) Breitung
  • Saxifraga aquatica Bubani
  • Saxifraga baumgartenii Schur
  • Saxifraga circinnata Hort.Monac. ex Rchb.
  • Saxifraga controversa Sternb.
  • Saxifraga controversa var. minima Roth
  • Saxifraga coronensis Schur
  • Saxifraga discolor Velen.
  • Saxifraga incompta M.Peck
  • Saxifraga linnaei Boiss.
  • Saxifraga linnaei var. elongata (Costa) Willk.
  • Saxifraga oregonensis (Raf.) A.Nelson
  • Saxifraga parnassica Boiss. & Heldr.
  • Saxifraga petraea var. elongata Costa
  • Saxifraga ramosissima Schur
  • Saxifraga rupestris Lapeyr.
  • Saxifraga scopolii Vill.

and 5 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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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