| Scientific Name: | Saxifraga x arendsii |
| Common Name: | mossy saxifrage |
| Family Name: | Saxifragaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Rock garden, Summer interest, Winter interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Spiraled, Succulent, Pubescent, Spatulate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Pink, Red, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Achene, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves spirally arranged tightly spaced on short stems forming moss-like clumps, obovate, most 5-lobed (a bit like tiny hands), ~2cm long x 1cm wide; flowers cymose 1-2cm wide, 5 separate identical petals, mostly white, pink or shades of red, May-June. | |