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Yellow mountain saxifrage

Saxifraga aizoides

Also called Yellow (Mountain) Saxifrage, Yellow Saxifrage, Evergreen Saxifrage

Yellow mountain saxifrage
Photo: Tigerente, CC BY 4.0

Yellow mountain saxifrage is a small, evergreen alpine perennial that forms mats of colonies from short rhizomes and grows only 2 to 10 cm tall. It needs cold, moist conditions with sharp drainage, so it does best in a rock garden or alpine trough.

Family
Saxifragaceae (Saxifrag family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and never let it dry out completely, but avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Gritty, free-draining mix, such as sand, grit and leaf mould, leaning neutral to slightly alkaline.
Temperature
Hardy to well below freezing; suited to cool summers, and cold winters are part of its natural cycle.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Subarctic America to N. U.S.A., Subarctic & Subalpine Europe to W. Siberia
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Saxifraga aizoides, yellow mountain saxifrage or yellow saxifrage, is a flowering alpine plant of the genus Saxifraga.

Where it grows

It prefers cold and moist well-draining neutral to basic bedrock, gravel, sand, or shale cliff environments. It is found in: North America, including Alaska, across Canada, the Great Lakes region, and Greenland; and in Europe, including the Tatra Mountains, Alps, and Svalbard.

Other Saxifraga plants

Garden Mossy Saxifrage · Saxifraga aspera · Saxifraga bicuspidata · Spiny Leaf Saxifrage · Yellowdot saxifrage · Mossy Saxifrage · Saxifraga burseriana · Thick Leaved Saxifrage · Saxifraga candelabrum · Nodding saxifrage · Tufted saxifrage · Saxifraga cochlearis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Saxifraga aizoides 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.

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