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.

Duke. J. A. and Ayensu. E. S. Medicinal Plants of China Reference Publications, Inc. 1985 p.592