Yrenean saxifrage

Description

London Pride, Saxifraga × urbium, is a perennial garden flowering plant. Alternative names for it include St. Patrick's cabbage, Whimsey, Prattling Parnell, and Look Up And Kiss Me. Before 1700 the London Pride appellation was given to the Sweet William. In 1846, Theresa Cornwallis West made a journey to Ireland. Near Dunloe in County Kerry "heareabouts grew quantities of our London Pride, and upon my expressing a wish for some roots to carry home, Sullivan the driver sprang down and tore up a large tuft. 'Ah, then,' said our guide Spillane 'that's too much entirely; why wouldn't ye leave some for the next comer?'"A Summer Visit to the West of Ireland in 1846." p. 99