Skye Flora

Mossy Saxifrage


Saxifraga hypnoides

 

Saxifraga hypnoides

Photo © Carl Farmer
21 May 2003 Storr

Locally common on mountain scree and rock ledges

Flower diameter c 10-20 mm

Skye ID: Basal rosette leaves divided above the middle into three linear lobes pointing forward, as in picture below.

Other features: From these basal rosettes arise stems bearing 1-5 flowers, also puts out many non-flowering stems along the ground which often have bulbils.  The leaves of the flowering and non-flowering stems are mostly undivided.  Petals white without any coloured dots.

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Saxifraga hypnoides

Photo © Carl Farmer
31 May 2003 Storr

  Saxifraga hypnoides

Photo © Carl Farmer
31 May 2003 Storr
Flower 16 mm across

Leaves at base of
flowering shoot
 
 

 

Saxifraga hypnoides

Photo © Carl Farmer
31 May 2003 Storr
 

A cushion of Mossy Saxifrage growing in scree


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