Saxifraga stolonifera (creeping saxifrage)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Saxifraga stolonifera, photographed by Luka S. (someplant) — fig. a Luka S. (someplant), CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 205037092

Saxifraga stolonifera, photographed by Sandy — fig. b Sandy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187263939

Saxifraga stolonifera, photographed by Thibaud Aronson — fig. c Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 182571173

Saxifraga stolonifera, photographed by Jacy Chen — fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169204572

Saxifraga stolonifera, photographed by yajapin — fig. e yajapin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145555873

Saxifraga stolonifera, photographed by Daniel Cahen — fig. f Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138424673

Saxifraga stolonifera, photographed by Marco Mussita — fig. g Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138063573

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Native distribution of Saxifraga stolonifera, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
China North-Central	CHN	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central	CHC
China Southeast	CHS
Japan	JAP
Korea	KOR
Taiwan	TAI
Bangladesh	BAN	ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya	EHM
Myanmar	MYA
Nepal	NEP
Vietnam	VIE

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 30 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.

Adenogyna sarmentosa (L.) Raf.
Aphomonix hederacea Raf.
Diptera cuscutiformis (Lodd.) Heynh.
Diptera sarmentosa (L.) Borkh.
Ligularia sarmentosa (L.) Duval
Robertsonia sarmentosa (L.) Link
Rupifraga cuscutiformis (Lodd.) Raf.
Rupifraga sarmentosa (L.) Raf.
Saxifraga chaffanjonii H.Lév.
Saxifraga chinensis Lour.
Saxifraga cuscutiformis G.Lodd.
Saxifraga dumetorum Balf.f.
Saxifraga fortunei var. tricolor Lem.
Saxifraga iochanensis H.Lév.
Saxifraga ligulata Murray
Saxifraga sarmentosa L.f.
Saxifraga sarmentosa var. aptera Makino
Saxifraga sarmentosa var. immaculata Diels
Saxifraga sarmentosa var. leuconeura Makino
Saxifraga sarmentosa var. tricolor (Lem.) Maxim.
Saxifraga sarmentosa var. tricolor-superba Van Geert
Saxifraga sarmentosa var. viridifolia Makino
Saxifraga stolonifera f. aptera (Makino) H.Hara
Saxifraga stolonifera f. leuconeura (Makino) H.Hara

and 6 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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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