Saxifraga cotyledon

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

{{Speciesbox

| image = Bergfrue, Chondrosea cotyledon.jpg

| genus = Saxifraga

| species = cotyledon

| authority = L.

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Saxifraga cotyledon,{{cite web |url=http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/di/saxifraga/saxif/saxicot.html |title=Fjällbrud, Saxifraga cotyledon L. |language=Swedish |work=Den virtuella floran |publisher=Naturhistoriska riksmuseet |date=August 14, 2006 |accessdate=March 25, 2012}}{{cite book |author=Manfred A. Fischer, Wolfgang Adler & Karl Oswald |year=2005 |title=Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol |publisher=Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen |location=Linz |isbn=978-3-85474-140-4 |chapter=Steinbrechblütige / Saxifraganae |language=German |page=392}} the pyramidal saxifrage, is a species of flowering plant that occurs in the mountains of Europe. It has rosettes about {{convert|20|cm|0}} across of tongue-shaped leaves, beaded but not toothed. In May or June the tall panicles of white flowers, branched and pyramidal in outline, may reach {{convert|60|cm|abbr=on}}. It is one of Norway's two national flowers (chosen in 1935). Its relationship to the "silver saxifrages" (Saxifraga sect. Ligulatae) remains to be resolved to full satisfaction.