Androsace saussurei

Androsace saussurei is a plant species in the family Primulaceae.

Androsace saussurei was named after Horace Bénédict de Saussure, an eighteenth-century scientist from Geneva.

The holotype was collected in Mont Blanc in Haute-Savoie of France.

[1] Androsace saussurei inhabit rock crevices on protogine and granite at elevations from 2,000 to 4,070 metres (6,560 to 13,350 ft), which is the highest elevation known for a vascular plant in Italy.

It is endemic to the Western Alps (Mont Blanc, Gran Paradiso, Valais, Vanoise, Thabor).