Saxifraga rosaceaMoench

WFO wfo-0000494799 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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 rosacea, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. a Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-13 / obs. 136357098
Saxifraga rosacea, photographed by Tuoichen
fig. b Tuoichen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169387493
Saxifraga rosacea, photographed by Jamie O'Neill
fig. c Jamie O'Neill, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202902409
Saxifraga rosacea, photographed by Jamie O'Neill
fig. d Jamie O'Neill, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199282938
Saxifraga rosacea, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. e Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136356995
Saxifraga rosacea, photographed by Tuoichen
fig. f Tuoichen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169388804
Saxifraga rosacea, photographed by Jamie O'Neill
fig. g Jamie O'Neill, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202902414
Saxifraga rosacea, photographed by Tuoichen
fig. h Tuoichen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169388961

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Saxifraga rosacea is native: Belgium, Czechia-Slovakia, Føroyar, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Poland BelgiumCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyIcelandIrelandPoland Føroyar
Native distribution of Saxifraga rosacea, 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
Belgium BGM EUROPE
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Føroyar FOR
France FRA
Germany GER
Iceland ICE
Ireland IRE
Poland POL

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 36 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 pedatifida (Ehrh. ex Sm.) Raf.
  • Muscaria decipiens (Ehrh.) Á.Löve
  • Saxifraga bohemica Panz. ex W.D.J.Koch
  • Saxifraga canescens Haw.
  • Saxifraga cespitosa prol. decipiens (Schübl. & G.Martens) Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Saxifraga cespitosa subsp. decipiens (Ehrh. ex Sternb.) Engl. & Irmsch.
  • Saxifraga cespitosa subsp. decipiens Schübl. & G.Martens
  • Saxifraga cespitosa subsp. rosacea (Moench) Thell.
  • Saxifraga cespitosa subsp. sponhemica (C.C.Gmel.) Bonnier & Layens
  • Saxifraga cespitosa subsp. sternbergii (Willd.) Schübl. & G.Martens
  • Saxifraga cespitosa var. glabrata Čelak.
  • Saxifraga cespitosa var. palmata (Sm.) Hartm.
  • Saxifraga cespitosa var. sponhemica (C.C.Gmel.) Regel
  • Saxifraga condensata C.C.Gmel.
  • Saxifraga confusa Lej.
  • Saxifraga decipiens Ehrh. ex Sternb.
  • Saxifraga decipiens f. hujus Engl.
  • Saxifraga decipiens subsp. steinmannii (Tausch) Braun-Blanq.
  • Saxifraga decipiens subsp. sternbergii (Willd.) Kerguélen
  • Saxifraga decipiens var. quinquefida Engl.
  • Saxifraga decipiens var. steinmannii (Tausch) Sternb.
  • Saxifraga diversifolia Schleich.
  • Saxifraga drucei E.S.Marshall
  • Saxifraga geranioides subsp. pedatifida (Ehrh. ex Sm.) Bonnier & Layens

and 12 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.

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.