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Chrysosplenium alternifolium
Also called Alternate-leaf golden saxifrage
Chrysosplenium alternifolium is a species of flowering plant in the saxifrage family known as the alternate-leaved golden-saxifrage. It is a mat-forming perennial of wet places that grows between 5 and 15 cm (2 and 6 in) tall. It blooms from March onward.
Alternate-leaved golden-saxifrage is distributed across much of the cooler and wetter parts of Europe. Its natural habitat is streamsides, ditch verges, bogs, woodland seeps, waterside meadows and other wet places. It flowers very early in the year while woodland is relatively unshaded and before leaves have appeared on the trees. Raindrops striking the lids of the seed capsules cause them to be knocked off and the seed dispersed with the water splashes.
American golden saxifrage · Stolon Golden Saxifrage · Pacific golden saxifrage · Iowa Golden Saxifrage · Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage · Hairy Golden Saxifrage · Chrysosplenium sinicum · Chrysosplenium tosaense · Chrysosplenium valdivicum · Wright's golden saxifrage · Golden saxifrage
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chrysosplenium alternifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
