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Lesser Londonpride

Saxifraga cuneifolia

Also called Lesser London Pride

Lesser Londonpride
Photo: Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0

Lesser Londonpride is a small, low-growing perennial with a rosette of leathery leaves and white flowers in late spring and summer, native to mountains of central and southern Europe. It is grown in rock gardens and needs sharp drainage and cool conditions.

Family
Saxifragaceae (Saxifrag family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade
Water
Water regularly in growing season, letting the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Gritty, free-draining soil or rock garden mix, neutral to alkaline.
Temperature
5–25 °C; hardy to about -20 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SE. France to NW. Italy
Climate
temperate

About

Saxifraga cuneifolia, the lesser Londonpride, shield-leaved saxifrage or spoon-leaved saxifrage, is a herbaceous perennial plant belonging to the Saxifragaceae family.

Where it grows

Lesser Londonpride is a native of the mountains of central and southern Europe, from northwestern Spain over the Pyrenees, the Cevennes, the Alps and the Apennines, up to the eastern and southern Carpathians and the north of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Other Saxifraga plants

Saxifraga burseriana · Thick Leaved Saxifrage · Saxifraga candelabrum · Saxifraga cochlearis · Saxifraga cotyledon · Fortune's Saxifrage · Mossy Saxifrage · Kabschia Saxifrage · Purple mountain saxifrage · Livelong Saxifrage · Creeping saxifrage · Pyrenean Saxifrage

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Saxifraga cuneifolia 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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