Saxifraga geranioidesL.

WFO wfo-0000494227 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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 geranioides, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. a Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-06 / obs. 150438122
Saxifraga geranioides, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. b Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45004740
Saxifraga geranioides, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. c Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 88173875
Saxifraga geranioides, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. d Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4876114
Saxifraga geranioides, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. e Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150438145
Saxifraga geranioides, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. f Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45004744
Saxifraga geranioides, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. g Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9296576
Saxifraga geranioides, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. h Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148977077

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Saxifraga geranioides is native: France, Spain FranceSpain
Native distribution of Saxifraga geranioides, 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
France FRA EUROPE
Spain SPA

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 21 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.

  • Evaiezoa geranioides (L.) Raf.
  • Evaiezoa ladanifera Raf.
  • Evaiezoa palmata Raf.
  • Saxifraga candollei Tausch
  • Saxifraga geranioides f. candollei Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga geranioides f. dissecta Luizet
  • Saxifraga geranioides f. edentula Luizet
  • Saxifraga geranioides f. multidentata Luizet
  • Saxifraga geranioides f. obovata Luizet
  • Saxifraga geranioides f. palmatifida Luizet
  • Saxifraga geranioides subsp. eugeranioides Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga geranioides subsp. palmata (Gaut.) H.Marcailhou & A.Marcailhou
  • Saxifraga geranioides var. multidentata (Luizet) Marret, Farrer & Capit.
  • Saxifraga geranioides var. obovata (Luizet) Marret, Farrer & Capit.
  • Saxifraga geranioides var. palmata Gaut.
  • Saxifraga geranioides var. palmatifida (Luizet) Marret, Farrer & Capit.
  • Saxifraga geranioides var. ranunculifolia Ser. ex DC.
  • Saxifraga geranioides var. typica Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga ladanifera Lapeyr.
  • Saxifraga palmata Lapeyr.
  • Saxifraga quinquefida Lam.

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.

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