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
Gymnopera section saxifrages are perennials forming rosettes of evergreen leaves, with leafless stems bearing panicles of small, 5-petalled flowers
'Primuloides' is a mat-forming evergreen perennial with rosettes of spoon-shaped dark green, scalloped leaves and erect stems to 20cm tall, with panicles of starry white flowers, spotted with red, in summer