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Saxifraga hyperborea
Also called Arctic Saxifrage
Pygmy saxifrage (Saxifraga hyperborea) is a small mat-forming Arctic and subalpine perennial with a woody base and tiny purple or white flowers. It is a cold-climate alpine plant best grown in cool, moist, well-drained conditions, which is hard to reproduce outside its native range.
Saxifraga hyperborea, the pygmy saxifrage, is a plant species native to Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Russia, Spitsbergen, and from mountainous areas in the western United States. One report from Mount Washington in New Hampshire is unverified. The plant grows in wet tundra, snow banks, stream banks and lake sides at elevations up to 3000 m. The US populations have been called S. debilis or S. rivularis in various publications.
Saxifraga hyperborea is a small mat-forming herb sometimes appearing purple, with a woody caudex. Flowers are purple or white, up to 5 mm across.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Saxifraga hyperborea 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.
