Saxifraga fortuneiHook.

WFO wfo-0001135983 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Saxifraga fortunei, photographed by Hibiki Katayama
fig. a Hibiki Katayama, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-22 / obs. 169707637
Saxifraga fortunei, photographed by Hibiki Katayama
fig. b Hibiki Katayama, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169707641
Saxifraga fortunei, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. c desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56742568
Saxifraga fortunei, photographed by Hibiki Katayama
fig. d Hibiki Katayama, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169707649

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Saxifraga fortunei is native: China South-Central, Japan, Korea, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Primorye, Sakhalin China South-CentralJapanManchuriaPrimoryeSakhalin Korea
Native distribution of Saxifraga fortunei, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Kuril Is. KUR
Manchuria CHM
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 48 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.

  • Bergenia fortunei (Hook.) Stein
  • Saxifraga cortusifolia f. pilosa Makino
  • Saxifraga cortusifolia f. rosea Takeda
  • Saxifraga cortusifolia f. rosea Makino
  • Saxifraga cortusifolia f. serrulata Takeda
  • Saxifraga cortusifolia subvar. breviloba Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga cortusifolia subvar. crassifolia Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga cortusifolia subvar. glabra Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga cortusifolia var. alpina Matsum. & Nakai
  • Saxifraga cortusifolia var. fortunei (Hook.) Maxim.
  • Saxifraga cortusifolia var. incisolobata Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga cortusifolia var. obtusocuneata Makino
  • Saxifraga fortunei f. alpina (Matsumura & Nakai) T.Shimizu
  • Saxifraga fortunei f. crassa (Nakai) Otsuka ex T.Shimizu
  • Saxifraga fortunei f. glabrescens Nakai
  • Saxifraga fortunei f. maritima (H.Hara) H.Hara
  • Saxifraga fortunei f. pilosa (Makino) H.Hara
  • Saxifraga fortunei f. pilosissima (Nakai) M.Kim
  • Saxifraga fortunei f. rosea (Nakai) H.Hara
  • Saxifraga fortunei f. rubra (Nakai) H.Hara
  • Saxifraga fortunei f. rubrifolia Honda
  • Saxifraga fortunei f. serrulata (Takeda) Nakai
  • Saxifraga fortunei f. yesoensis (Nakai) H.Hara
  • Saxifraga fortunei var. breviloba (Engl. & Irmsch.) Nakai

and 24 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. 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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