English: Swamp Saxifrage; Eastern Swamp Saxifrage.
Synonym: Saxifraga pensylvanica.
Region: N. America, Maine to Ontario, Minnesota, Virginia, Iowa, Missouri.
Habitat: wet meadows, swamps, boggy thickets, prairies, moist woods, seeps, seeping banks; grows best in cool woodland conditions; part shade, sun.
Use: young leaves, fresh or cooked, in salads or as a potherb; medicinal; ornamental, shady position in a wild garden.

BotanyHerb; perennial; 30 to 100 cm tall.
Stem: thick; covered in sticky hairs.
Leaves: in a basal rosette; 20 cm long, 7 cm wide; with a blunt or sharp point at the tip; tapering at the base; short reddish stalk; surface sparsely to densely covered in sticky hairs; edges toothless or with rounded teeth.
Inflorescence: single; small branching clusters on the upper stem; flowers tightly packed, spreading out as the plant matures.
Flowers: 5 narrow pale yellow to greenish, rarely purple petals; 10 spreading orange-tipped stamens; large green ovary in the center; flowering May, June.