Saxifraga: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Saxifragales
- Family
- Saxifragaceae
- Genus
- Saxifraga
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Saxifraga
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Saxifraga
Saxifraga is the largest genus in the family Saxifragaceae, containing about 473 species of holarctic perennial plants, known as saxifrages or rockfoils. 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.
...Saxifraga in languages:
- Bokmål
- sildreslekta
- Chinese
- 虎耳草屬
- Czech
- lomikámen
- Danish
- Stenbrækslægten
- Dutch
- Steenbreek
- English
- Saxifrages
- English
- Rockfoils
- Finnish
- lehtirikot
- French
- Saxifrage
- German
- Steinbrech
- Italian
- Sassifraghe
- Japanese
- ユキノシタ属
- Korean
- 범의귀속
- Lithuanian
- Uolaskėlė
- Modern Greek
- Σαξιφράγκα
- Polish
- skalnica
- Russian
- Камнеломка
- Slovene
- kamnokreč
- Swedish
- bräckor
- Ukrainian
- Ломикамінь
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Bronchiales
- Ciliatae
- Cotylea
- Cymbalaria
- Gymnopera
- Heterisia
- Irregulares
- Ligulatae
- Mesogyne
- Porphyrion
- Pseudocymbalaria
- Saxifraga
- Saxifraga asarifolia
- Saxifraga benzilanensis
- Saxifraga boreo-olympica
- Saxifraga jamalensis
- Saxifraga jurtzevii
- Saxifraga kashmeriana
- Saxifraga microcephala
- Saxifraga pseudoparvula
- Saxifraga voroschilovii
- Saxifraga × aragonensis
- Saxifraga × blyttii
- Saxifraga × borderi
- Saxifraga × cochleariifolia
- Saxifraga × degeniana
- Saxifraga × farreri
- Saxifraga × forojulensis
- Saxifraga × forsteri
- Saxifraga × gentyana
- Saxifraga × mattfeldii
- Saxifraga × patens
- Saxifraga × paxii
- Saxifraga × ramondii
- Saxifraga × saleixiana
- Saxifraga × wettsteinii
- Saxifraga × zimmeteri
- Saxifragella
- Trachyphyllum































































































































































