Scientific name: Saxifraga tridactylites L.
Common name: Rue-leaved Saxifrage
Description
Habit: A small annual, to 10 cm high.
Stems: Erect, branched, with glandular hairs, often tinged with red.
Leaves: Alternate, stalked or stalkless, glandular hairy and often tinged with red, undivided or 3-5-lobed.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, numerous in loose terminal or axillary cymes; sepals 5, free, erect; petals 5, free, 3 mm; stamens twice as many as sepals; ovary semi-inferior deeply sunk in hypanthium, 2-celled, carpels 2.
Fruits: A capsule.
Habitat: Rocks, walls, sand-dunes and open habitats on shallow soils. Distribution: Very frequent on the limestone, occasional elsewhere on calcareous sands or mortared walls.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No