English > saxifrage family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae. |
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| Synonyms | Saxifragaceae, family Saxifragaceae |
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| Member of | Rosales, order Rosales | In some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae |
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| Members | Boykinia, genus Boykinia | genus of perennial rhizomatous herbs with flowers in panicles |
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| Chrysosplenium, genus Chrysosplenium | genus of widely distributed semiaquatic herbs with minute greenish-yellow apetalous flowers |
| Darmera, genus Darmera, Peltiphyllum, genus Peltiphyllum | One species |
| Francoa, genus Francoa | perennial evergreen herbs with white or pink flowers |
| Heuchera, genus Heuchera | genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers |
| Leptarrhena, genus Leptarrhena | One species |
| Lithophragma, genus Lithophragma | small genus of perennial herbs of the western North America |
| Mitella, genus Mitella | genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals |
| Saxifraga, genus Saxifraga | type genus of the Saxifragaceae |
| Tellima, genus Tellima | genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers |
| Tiarella, genus Tiarella | small genus of North American herbs having mostly basal leaves and slender racemes of delicate white flowers |
| Tolmiea, genus Tolmiea | One species |
| genus Astilbe | chiefly Asiatic perennials |
| genus Bergenia | genus of perennial spring-blooming rhizomatous herbs with thick evergreen leaves |
| genus Parnassia | genus of bog herbs of Arctic and northern temperate regions |
| genus Suksdorfia | small genus of rhizomatous herbs of northwestern America and South America |
| Broader | rosid dicot family | A family of dicotyledonous plants |
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| Spanish | saxifragáceas |
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| Catalan | saxifragàcia, saxifragàcies |
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