This is a hybrid between Saxifraga umbrosa (Pyrenean Saxifrage) and Saxifraga spathularis (St. Patrick's-cabbage) known to all gardeners as Londons' Pride.

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.