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|accepted_name=Saxifraga cernua
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 403. 1753 ,
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|common_names=Nodding saxifrage;saxifrage penchée
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Saxifragaceae;Saxifraga;Saxifraga cernua
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Saxifragaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Saxifraga]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Saxifraga cernua]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 133, 134, 135
|treatment_page=page 143
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>solitary or in tufts, not stoloniferous, weakly rhizomatous, with small caudex. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, (basal usually ephemeral, gradually dying through growing season, cauline conspicuous, reduced distally); petiole flattened, (5–)10–60(–90) mm; blade round to reniform, 3–7(–9)-lobed usually less than halfway to midvein (distal unlobed), (3–)5–18(–20) mm, slightly fleshy, margins entire, eciliate or sometimes sparsely glandular-ciliate, apex rounded, sometimes acute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2(–5)-flowered paniculate or racemelike thyrses, sometimes solitary flowers, (flowers nodding in bud), some or all flowers but terminal one on each branch often replaced by bulbils, 3–30 cm, stipitate-glandular; bracts (proximal ephemeral), petiolate or sessile. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect, (sometimes reddish), oblong, margins glandular-ciliate, surfaces short-stipitate-glandular; petals white, not spotted, obovate to spatulate, 5–12 mm, longer than sepals; ovary superior. <b>2n</b> = 24, 36, 48, 52, 56, 60, 70, 72.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Cool, wet areas, mossy banks, tundra, shady rock faces, late snowbeds
|elevation=0-4300 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Idaho;Minn.;Mont.;Nev.;N.H.;N.Mex.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p><i>Saxifraga cernua</i> plants rarely set seed; they bear bulbils among the basal leaves. Some reports of <i>S. sibirica</i> Linnaeus from Canada are misidentifications of this species.</p>
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name=Saxifraga cernua
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Saxifragaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Cool, wet areas, mossy banks, tundra, shady rock faces, late snowbeds
|elevation=0-4300 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Idaho;Minn.;Mont.;Nev.;N.H.;N.Mex.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Saxifraga
|species=Saxifraga cernua
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