saxifrage
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Any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga (synset 112813775)
is a type of: herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pestssubtypes:
- saxifraga aizoides, yellow mountain saxifrage - tufted evergreen perennial having ciliate leaves and yellow corymbose flowers often spotted orange
- fair-maids-of-france, meadow saxifrage, saxifraga granulata - rosette-forming perennial having compact panicles of white flowers; Europe
- mossy saxifrage, saxifraga hypnoides - tufted or mat-forming perennial of mountains of Europe; cultivated for its white flowers
- saxifraga occidentalis, western saxifrage - saxifrage having loose clusters of white flowers on hairy stems growing from a cluster of basal leaves; moist slopes of western North America
- purple saxifrage, saxifraga oppositifolia - plants forming dense cushions with bright reddish-lavender flowers; rocky areas of Europe and Asia and western North America
- saxifraga stellaris, star saxifrage, starry saxifrage - small often mat-forming alpine plant having small starlike white flowers; Europe
- mother-of-thousands, saxifraga sarmentosam, saxifraga stolonifera, strawberry geranium, strawberry saxifrage - eastern Asiatic saxifrage with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons
belongs to: genus saxifraga, saxifraga - type genus of the Saxifragaceae; large genus of usually perennial herbs of Arctic and cool regions of northern hemisphere: saxifragesame as: breakstone, rockfoil
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