London Pride, or Wild London Pride, also called St Patrick's Cabbage and Fox's Cabbage, is a small- to medium-sized perennial. It is more widespread than Kidney Saxifrage. The flowers are held up in a loose cluster above graceful stalks; they are pink and white with crimson spots. The leaves grow in a basal rosette; they narrow towards the base. The stems are reddish and the plant gives a reddish impression. This is one of Ireland's most elegant native plants, and is confusingly variable. It can easily be found among mainly acid rocks in Cork and Kerry, and less prolifically northward to Donegal, also in the Galtees, Waterford and Wicklow. The plant grows luxuriantly in the shade, especially in the woods round Killarney. The London Pride of gardens is a hybrid between this plant and Saxifraga umbrosa which grows only in the Pyrenees.
In 1696 the Dublin physician Thomas Molyneux recorded this saxifrage; he had found it growing over a mountain in Kerry. The flowers open from May to July.
Wild London Pride is not native to Britain. It grows in northern Spain and in the mountains of northern Portugal.