Saxifraga carpetanaBoiss. & Reut.

WFO wfo-0000494858 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Saxifraga carpetana, photographed by Abdenour Kheloufi
fig. a Abdenour Kheloufi, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-10 / obs. 197871457
Saxifraga carpetana, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. b Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 124315598
Saxifraga carpetana, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. c Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118751060
Saxifraga carpetana, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. d Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123469277
Saxifraga carpetana, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. e Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112711947
Saxifraga carpetana, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. f Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64721265
Saxifraga carpetana, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. g Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64630799
Saxifraga carpetana, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. h Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 37176658

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Saxifraga carpetana is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, East Aegean Is., Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaEast Aegean Is.AlbaniaBulgariaGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Saxifraga carpetana, 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
Bulgaria BUL
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE

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.

Also published as 15 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.

  • Saxifraga aliciana Rouy & Coincy
  • Saxifraga arundana var. carpetana (Boiss. & Reut.) Ball
  • Saxifraga atlantica Boiss. & Reut.
  • Saxifraga atlantica subsp. carpetana (Boiss. & Reut.) Batt.
  • Saxifraga blanca Willk.
  • Saxifraga carpetana f. multiceps Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga carpetana subsp. atlantica (Boiss. & Reut.) Romo
  • Saxifraga carpetana var. aliciana (Rouy & Coincy) Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga carpetana var. atlantica (Boiss. & Reut.) Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga carpetana var. eucarpetana Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga graeca Boiss. & Heldr. ex Boiss.
  • Saxifraga granulata subsp. graeca (Boiss. & Heldr.) Engl.
  • Saxifraga granulata unranked graeca (Boiss. & Heldr.) Farrer
  • Saxifraga veronicifolia Dufour
  • Saxifraga veronicifolia var. atlantica (Boiss. & Reut.) Maire

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. 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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