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Micranthes californica
California saxifrage is a small perennial herb forming a rosette of thick, toothed, gray-green leaves with clusters of tiny white flowers on slender stalks. It thrives in moist, shaded or partly shaded spots, so keep its soil consistently damp and cool.
Micranthes californica (syn: Saxifraga californica), known by the common name California saxifrage, is a species of flowering plants.
It is native to much of California west and north of the desert regions, as well as adjacent sections of southern Oregon and northern Baja California. It grows in many types of moist habitat from the coast to the mountains.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Micranthes californica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
