Synonyms: Saxifraga cernua L. var. exilioides Polunin; Saxifraga bulbifera [of Gunners, non Linnaeus]; Saxafraga simulata Small

Vernacular Name: Nodding saxifrage

Distribution: This species is found throughout the Boreal Arctic and extends south in Alpine regions western North America from Alaska to New Mexico. It also occurs disjunctly in the Alpine of Scotland, Japan, the Himalaya/Tien-Shan/Altai east to China, and the Alps/Carpathians, rare in Burma, etc.

Habitat: This species rarely produces seed, and tends to occur in mono-clonal populations reproducing by production of bulbils in place of fruit. Common in snow-melt runoff area in the Southern Rockies. Known to hybridize with S. rivularis L.

Important Literature:

Hickman, J.C. (Editor). 1993. The Jepson Manual, Higher Plants of California, University of California Press.

Kearney, T.H. and R.H. Peebles. 1951. Arizona Flora, University of California Press.

Shreve F. and I.L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert, Stanford University Press.

Webb, D.A. and R.J. Gornall. 1989. Saxifrages, Timber Press, Portland, Oregon, USA

Webb, D.A. and R.J.Gornall. 1989. Saxifrages of Europe, Chiristopher Helm Publishers Ltd., Imperial House, Bromley, Kent, Great Britain.

Weber, W.A. 1987. Colorado Flora, Western Slope, University of Colorado Press.

Weber, W.A. 1990. Colorado Flora, Eastern Slope, University of Colorado Press.

Welsh, S.L., N.D. Atwood, S. Goodrich, and L. Higgins (Editors). 1987. A Utah Flora, Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs #9, Brigham Young University.

Wooton, E.O. and P.C. Standley. 1915. Flora of New Mexico. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 19, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., Washington D.C. Jan. 24, 1998

Information Compiled By: David J.Ferguson