saxifrage
- noun
- /ˈsæksɪˌfreɪdʒ/
- Specialized
:
saxífraga
- Hikers often admire the delicate star-shaped flowers of saxifrage while exploring mountainous trails.
- golden saxifrage
- swamp saxifrage
- early saxifrage
Examples
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Other plants are blue marsh violet, creeping snowberry, marsh marigold, northern St. Johnswort, swamp saxifrage, and Virginia marsh St. Johnswort.
Academic text (2011) -
In the sunny gaps between the trees, butterburs, golden saxifrage, and sweet-flax were more to be seen than the violets, bellflowers, and enchanter's nightshade of the highlands.
Fiction book (1992) -
It was three different kinds of teas made from wild herbs he'd picked and dried in the Sierras the summer before: pennyroyal, coyote mint, saxifrage.
Fiction book (1992) -
He saw huge lumps of rock, saw juniper and patient saxifrage, but nothing in this place of orchards; no tree so tame, only twisted shaggy bark, tough and resilient, and weathered gray stone.
Fiction book (1992) -
In the rocky gardens, the vibrant yellow saxifrage blooms beautifully during spring.
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The saxifrage thrives in harsh alpine conditions, often sprouting in crevices between rocks.
Synonyms
A small flowering plant that grows in cracks between stones
A small plant that grows in cracks in rocks and in rock gardens
A small plant with pretty flowers that grows on rocks in cold mountain areas
Compounds
A plant with thick leathery leaves and tight clusters of white flowers that grows in moist rocky places
A low plant that lives for many years with small white flower clusters in meadows
- Specialized
A low plant that grows in wet places with small yellow-green flowers
- Specialized
A group of mostly small flowering plants that grow in cold northern mountains and on rocks
A small mountain plant with white star-shaped flowers that grows in low mats in European mountains
- Specialized
A small garden plant with red and white flowers that spreads along the ground
A small plant with white flowers that grows on moist slopes in western North America
A small evergreen mountain plant with clumps of hairy leaves and yellow flowers
Surface Forms
Etymology
Saxifrage comes from Latin saxum 'rock' and frangere 'to break', so it means 'rock-breaker'. The 'break' part is the same idea as in English fracture, and that's why saxifrages are small plants that often grow in cracks in rocks and on mountains, as if they split the stone.
