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Horticulture
This is a hybrid between Saxifraga umbrosa (Pyrenean Saxifrage) and Saxifraga spathularis (St. Patrick's-cabbage) known to all gardeners as Londons' Pride.
Medicinal
The following notes refer to the related species S. stolonifera and its uses in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Leaf: Juice dropped into aching ear, onto abscesses, inflammations.
Plant: Febrifuge, suppurative. Whole plant is crushed and the juice applied to abscesses, boils, chilblains, cholera, convulsions, cough, fever, hematemesis, otitis media, and snakebite. Dried plant burned to fumigate hemorrhoids.
Duke. J. A. and Ayensu. E. S. Medicinal Plants of China Reference Publications, Inc. 1985 p.592
Saxifraga x urbium D.A. Webb
Family: SAXIFRAGACEAEGenus: Saxifraga
Species: urbium D.A. Webb
Common names: London Pride
Distribution summary: Garden origin
Habit: Perennial
Hardiness: H5 - Hardy; cold winter
Garden status: Currently grown
Garden location: Plants of the World (C)
Reason for growing: Other use