Mother-of-thousands
Saxifraga stolonifera Curtis
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- 46 cm
Saxifragaceae
Also called Strawberry Saxifrage, Strawberry Begonia, Creeping saxifrage, Trailing saxifrage
Formerly Adenogyna sarmentosa, Aphomonix hederacea, Diptera cuscutiformis, Diptera sarmentosa, and 14 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. Nepal to C. & S. China, S. Korea, C. & S. Japan, TaiwanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Japanese
- ユキノシタ, 雪の下
- Chinese
- 虎耳草, 小虎耳草
- French
- Saxifrage stolonifère
- German
- Kriech-Steinbrech
- Czech
- lomikámen výběžkatý
- Swedish
- Arons skägg
- Korean
- 바위취
- Dutch
- Moederplant
- Danish
- Jødeskæg
- Polish
- skalnica rozłogowa, Skalnica rozłogowa
- Chinese (China)
- 虎耳草
- Finnish
- aaroninparta, Aaroninparta
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Saxifraga stolonifera (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.