Saxifraga
Genus of flowering plants in the family Saxifragaceae (saxifrages) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about a plant genus. For other plants called saxifrage, and other uses, see Saxifrage (disambiguation).
Saxifraga is the largest genus in the family Saxifragaceae, containing about 473 species of holarctic perennial plants, known as saxifrages[1][2] or rockfoils.[3] The Latin word saxifraga means literally "stone-breaker", from Latin saxum ("rock" or "stone") + frangere ("to break"). It is usually thought to indicate a medicinal use for treatment of urinary calculi (known as kidney or bladder stones), rather than breaking rocks apart.[2][4]
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Saxifraga cochlearis | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Saxifragales |
Family: | Saxifragaceae |
Genus: | Saxifraga Tourn. ex L. (1753) |
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Saxifraga granulata | |
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