Saxifraga umbrosa

Saxifraga umbrosa, called true London pride, none-so-pretty, king's feather, kiss-me-quick, leaf of St Patrick, look-up-and-kiss-me, mignonette of the French, Nancy-pretty, prattling Parnell, Pyrenean saxifrage, sailor plant, St Anne's needlework, St Patrick's cabbage, and whimsey, although some of these names may more properly belong to Saxifraga spathularis, or its hybrid with S. spathularis, Saxifraga × urbium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae.^[2] It is native to the Pyrenees, and has been introduced elsewhere in Europe, and to southern Chile.^[1] Its cultivar 'Clarence Elliott' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.^[3]

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  Close-up of flower
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  Foliage
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  Variegated cultivar
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  Mass effect

Saxifraga umbrosa
At the botanical garden of the University of Wrocław
Botanical illustration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Saxifragales
Family:	Saxifragaceae
Genus:	Saxifraga
Species:	S. umbrosa
Binomial name
Saxifraga umbrosa L.
Synonyms[1]
List Geum umbrosum (L.) Moench Hydatica umbrosa (L.) Raf. Robertsonia hybrida (Vill. ex Lapeyr.) Link Robertsonia sphaeroidea Haw. Robertsonia umbrosa (L.) Haw. Saxifraga dentata Link Saxifraga haworthii Sweet Saxifraga hybrida Vill. ex Lapeyr. Saxifraga polita Ser. Saxifraga sphaeroidea (Haw.) Sweet Steiranisia punctata Raf.