English: Malled mossy saxifrage; Cut-leaved saxifrage, Dovedale moss; Eve's cushion; Indian moss; Lady's cushion; Queen's cushion.
Synonym: Saxifraga hibernica.
Region: northwestern Europe; Iceland, Faroe Islands, Norway, Ireland, Great Britain, Belgium, France; introduced to Czechia, Eastern Himalayas, Tibet.
BotanyHerb; perennial, stoloniferous.
Habitat: on moist rocks, screes, cliffs; by mountain streams; rarely on sand dunes, often in partial shade; soil base-rich, although it can grow on acidic rocks; altitude 200-760 m, up to 1215 m.
loosely cespitose, 1 1/2 -8 in. high, with herbaceous loosely foliose caudicles which are frequently reddish tinted: s
Stems: erect, covered with very slender glands.
Leaves: light green, those of the caudicles rather thick, sparsely covered with slender hairs, when old rather glabrous; suborbicular blade is cut all the way to the base; 3-lobed, and is borne on a rather broad; flat; 1-nerved; ciliate petiole which is shorter than the blade, lobes of the blade linear-lanceolate, a little dilated at the middle, acute or mucronate, with the lateral lobes divaricate, often 2-lobed.
Inflorescence: 3-7-fld. panicles.
Flowers: long-pedicelled; white; ± 2 cm diameter; calyx very densely glandulose, the lobes oblong-triangular, mucronulate; petals obovate, 3-nerved, twice longer than calyx; flowering May to July.
Fruit: ovate-globose.