Scientific name: Saxifraga hypnoides L.
Common name: Mossy Saxifrage
Description
Habit: A low mat-forming perennial.
Stems: Trailing, leafy, with stolons.
Leaves: Alternate, ending in a hair-like tip; either linear-oblong and undivided or palmately 3-7 lobed.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, buds often drooping, in a small, erect, terminal cyme; sepals 5, free; petals 5, free, 6-8 mm long; stamens twice as many as sepals; ovary semi-inferior partly sunk in hypanthium, 2-celled, carpels 2.
Fruits: A capsule.
Habitat: Limestone pavement, rocky grassland.Distribution: Common in the central part of Burren, thinning out towards east and west; not recorded elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: Yes