Saxifraga paniculataMill.

Livelong SaxifrageWhite Mountain saxifrage

WFO wfo-0000493624 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Saxifraga paniculata, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. a Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205218004
Saxifraga paniculata, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. b Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205738865
Saxifraga paniculata, photographed by Jochen Essig
fig. c Jochen Essig, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204829309
Saxifraga paniculata, photographed by Philipp
fig. d Philipp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203216673
Saxifraga paniculata, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. e Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202773963
Saxifraga paniculata, photographed by Philipp
fig. f Philipp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201003727
Saxifraga paniculata, photographed by Attila Oláh
fig. g Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200921283
Saxifraga paniculata, photographed by Attila Oláh
fig. h Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201194664

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Native range 38 botanical countries

Regions where Saxifraga paniculata is native: Iran, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Greenland, Labrador, Maine, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec, Vermont IranNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIcelandItalyNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSwitzerlandUkraineGreenlandLabradorMaineManitobaMichiganMinnesotaNew BrunswickNew HampshireNew YorkNewfoundlandNorthwest TerritoriesNova ScotiaNunavutOntarioQuébecVermont
Native distribution of Saxifraga paniculata, 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
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Iceland ICE
Italy ITA
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Greenland GNL NORTHERN AMERICA
Labrador LAB
Maine MAI
Manitoba MAN
Michigan MIC
Minnesota MIN
New Brunswick NBR
New Hampshire NWH
New York NWY
Newfoundland NFL
Northwest Territories NWT
Nova Scotia NSC
Nunavut NUN
Ontario ONT
Québec QUE
Vermont VER
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
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 677 in flower of 1,090 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Saxifraga paniculata 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. 677 of 1,090 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,000 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -17.4 °C -12.2 °C -3.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 12.3 °C 16.8 °C 22.4 °C
Annual rainfall 821 mm 1,487 mm 2,483 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 124 mm 242 mm 477 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,000 research-grade observations of Saxifraga paniculata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 131 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.

  • Chondrosea aizoon (Jacq.) Haw.
  • Chondrosea aizoopsis Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea alpicola Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea beugesiaca Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea brevicaulis Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea calcarea Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea carthusiana Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea cartilaginea (Willd.) Haw.
  • Chondrosea flexipes Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea glabrata Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea glareosa Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea gracilescens Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea laevigata Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea leptopetala Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea orophila Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea paniculata (Mill.) Á.Löve
  • Chondrosea paniculata subsp. neogaea (Butters) Á.Löve
  • Chondrosea patulipes Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea petrophila Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea punctillata Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea pusilla Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea refracta Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea rosella Jord. & Fourr.
  • Chondrosea rosularis Haw.

and 107 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.

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.