Saxifraga can be annuals, biennials, evergreen or herbaceous perennials, mostly mat-forming in habit, with simple or palmately lobed leaves and starry or rounded flowers which may be solitary of in panicles or cymes
Ligulatae section saxifrages are evergreen perennials forming monocarpic rosettes, usually clustered, of narrowly strap-shaped or oblong, lime-encrusted leaves, with sprays of small white, pale yellow or pink flowers in late spring or early summer
'Major' is an evergreen perennial with rosettes of narrowly spoon-shaped grey-green leaves to 4.5cm in length. Flowers 2cm in width, white, borne in panicles on stems to 20cm in early summer