Rue-leaved saxifrage

Description:

Saxifraga tridactylites, the rue-leaved saxifrage, is a species of plant in the family Saxifragaceae. Rue-leaved saxifrage is an annual plant with distinctive, trilobed, fleshy leaves and red stems. These stems, the leaves and the sepals are covered in numerous sticky glands.

Habitat:

It can be found in various open habitats with shallow, gravelly, soil, including rock ledges, pavements, walls, roadsides and railway tracks, on different (substrates but often on limestone, 0-1200 m) The pictured cluster of the tiny Saxifraga tridactylites flowered plants, were spotted and photographed in Tzoumerka mountains National park, Epirus region, Greece.