Swamp Saxifrage, Eastern Swamp Saxifrage, Saxifraga pensylvanica L., Native Minnesota Wildflower plant, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

	Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
	Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Family	Garden Location	Prime Season
	Eastern Swamp Saxifrage	Saxifraga pensylvanica L.	Saxifrage	Woodland-Bog	Spring to Summer
Other names and notes	Saxifrages are basal leaved plants with a tall flower stalk. The Swamp Saxifrage has a somewhat hairy, tall ( 1 to 2 foot) stalk where the terminal cluster of buds opens into several small branches of flower clusters, the flowers being greenish or whitish. Leaves are hairy. The leaves are lance shaped and hairy. Other members of this Family in the garden include Alum root and Mitrewort.


Above: The terminal bud on the emerging flower stalk; a section of the hairy leaves visible. Below: The flower stalk branching out into the individual clusters of small flowers.	Above: The hairy basal leaves of the plant with flower stalks emerging. Below: Detail of a flower cluster.

Notes: This plant is indigenous to the Garden area. Eloise Butler catalogued it on May 25, 1907. Native to counties of Eastern and Central Minnesota roughly east of a diagonal line running from Mower in the SE to Hubbard and Beltrami in the NW. Absent in the Arrowhead.

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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, W2 & W3. Distribution principally from W2 and also 31, 34 and W1. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.

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