Saxifraga tricuspidata Rottb.

Plants loosely mat-forming, (stems trailing), not stoloniferous, with elongate caudex or rhizomatous. Leaves cauline, (marcescent, crowded proximally); petiole absent; blade (often reddish), linear to cuneate, 1-3-lobed or-toothed apically (distal cauline unlobed), rarely all unlobed, (lobes long spinose-mucronate), 5-20 mm, leathery, margins entire, softly glandular-ciliate, (nonsecreting hydathodes present adaxially), apex acute, long spinose-mucronate, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 3-10-flowered cymes, 4-10(-24) cm, white to sparsely pink-to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; bracts sessile. Flowers: sepals erect to ascending, (sometimes purplish), triangular-ovate, margins f glandular-ciliate, surfaces white to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; petals white to cream, proximally to distally yellow-, orange-, and red-spotted, elliptic to ovate, 4-7 mm, much longer than sepals; ovary superior. 2n = 26.

It is a cold temperate plant.

The flowers are eaten.