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Saxifraga paradoxa
Saxifraga paradoxa, the fragile saxifrage, is a small perennial from the South-Eastern Alps that grows in damp, shaded rocky screens. It is a species rather than a genus, and it needs cool, moist, shaded conditions with good drainage to thrive.
Saxifraga paradoxa, commonly known as the fragile saxifrage, is a perennial plant species in the family Saxifragaceae, which occurs as a tertiary relict and endemic Saxifraga species in the South-Eastern Alps. Count Kaspar Maria von Sternberg described this species in his work Revisio Saxifragarum iconibus of 1810.
This Saxifraga species native range are South-Eastern Alps, with most of its populations inhabiting Slovenia and Austria. In Austria Saxifraga paradoxa occurs in Carinthia and Styria, while in Slovenia its growing area includes valleys of rivers Hudinja and Lobnica (tributary of Drava) near Pohorje, as well as Kozjak mountains and Košenjak. Its habitat usually consists of damp and shaded rocky screes with non-calcareous basis, mostly containing granite and gneiss. After this species Slovak botanist Ladislav Mucina named plant community Saxifragetum paradoxae, with Saxifraga paradoxa being its characteristic species.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Saxifraga paradoxa 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.
