Saxifraga umbrosaL.

WFO wfo-0000494496 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 umbrosa, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. a Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-26 / obs. 150294368
Saxifraga umbrosa, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. b Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4875131
Saxifraga umbrosa, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. c Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150294390
Saxifraga umbrosa, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. d Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 4875134
Saxifraga umbrosa, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. e Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150294425
Saxifraga umbrosa, photographed by agujaceratops
fig. f agujaceratops, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73872210
Saxifraga umbrosa, photographed by agujaceratops
fig. g agujaceratops, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73871553
Saxifraga umbrosa, photographed by agujaceratops
fig. h agujaceratops, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73872194

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Saxifraga umbrosa is native: France, Spain FranceSpain
Native distribution of Saxifraga umbrosa, 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 26 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.

  • Geum umbrosum (L.) Moench
  • Hydatica umbrosa (L.) Raf.
  • Robertsonia hybrida (Vill. ex Lapeyr.) Link
  • Robertsonia sphaeroidea Haw.
  • Robertsonia umbrosa Haw.
  • Saxifraga cuneifolia subsp. umbrosa (L.) Bonnier & Layens
  • Saxifraga dentata Link
  • Saxifraga haworthii Sweet
  • Saxifraga hirsuta var. sphaeroidea (Haw.) Haw.
  • Saxifraga hybrida Vill. ex Lapeyr.
  • Saxifraga polita hort. ex Ser.
  • Saxifraga semidecandra Fisch. ex Ser.
  • Saxifraga sphaeroidea Sweet
  • Saxifraga umbrosa var. aegilops Farrer
  • Saxifraga umbrosa var. crenata Ser. ex DC.
  • Saxifraga umbrosa var. crenulata Regel & Rach
  • Saxifraga umbrosa var. cuneata Farrer
  • Saxifraga umbrosa var. linnaei Sternb.
  • Saxifraga umbrosa var. melvillei Farrer
  • Saxifraga umbrosa var. ogilvieana Farrer
  • Saxifraga umbrosa var. primuloides Farrer
  • Saxifraga umbrosa var. smithii Sternb.
  • Saxifraga umbrosa var. tournefortii Sternb.
  • Saxifraga umbrosa var. typica Engl. & Irmsch.

and 2 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.