West Highland Flora

Yellow Saxifrage


Saxifraga aizoides

 

Saxifraga aizoides

Photo © Carl Farmer
29 Jun 2003 Suardal, Skye

Frequent on stony wet flushes and beside rocky streams in hills and sometimes at lower altitudes.

Flower diameter c 8-15 mm

ID: 5 yellow petals, narrow, well separated, alternating with narrow sepals and with spaces between both.

Other features: Petals sometimes have red dots.  Flowering stems leafy, unlike many saxifrages.  Plant also has densely leafy non-flowering shoots.  Leaf-edges have scattered stiff hairs.

 

Saxifraga aizoides

Photo © Carl Farmer
29 Jun 2003 Suardal, Skye
Flower 15 mm across

 

Saxifraga aizoides

Photo © Carl Farmer
29 Jun 2003 Suardal, Skye

 

Saxifraga aizoides

Photo © Carl Farmer
29 Jun 2003 Suardal, Skye

 

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