Saxifraga veitchiana

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Saxifraga veitchiana

Family: (Saxifragaceae)

(P) to 10″.  Rockfoil.  Southwestern China.  Small rounded leaves to one inch across are a deep green with rosy undersides and petioles.  The leaves have shallowly scalloped margins and are covered in bristly hairs.  Panicles of small, numerous, delicate, white flowers appear throughout summer.  The five-petalled flowers are comprised of two longer, lower petals and three upper, shorter petals which have red spots and orange splotches at their base.  Forms a gently spreading, evergreen groundcover for part shade to shade with moist, well-drained soil.  5 & 7 for 4 weeks, then T1