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What (who) is Saxifrage - definition

SPECIES OF PLANT
Drooping saxifrage; Nodding saxifrage; Nodding Saxifrage; Drooping Saxifrage; Bulblet Saxifrage; Bulblet saxifrage
  • ''Saxifraga cernua''

Saxifrage         
  • S. rotundifolia]]''), whose sticky leaves seem to catch small [[invertebrate]]s
  • 
''[[Saxifraga urumoffii]]'' at the [[Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh]].
GENUS OF PLANTS
Megasea; Boecherarctica; Zahlbrucknera; Saxifrage; Stone Breakers; Stone breakers; Saxifrages
·noun Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions.
saxifrage         
  • S. rotundifolia]]''), whose sticky leaves seem to catch small [[invertebrate]]s
  • 
''[[Saxifraga urumoffii]]'' at the [[Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh]].
GENUS OF PLANTS
Megasea; Boecherarctica; Zahlbrucknera; Saxifrage; Stone Breakers; Stone breakers; Saxifrages
['saks?fre?d?]
¦ noun a low-growing plant of poor soils, bearing small white, yellow, or red flowers and forming rosettes of succulent leaves or hummocks of mossy leaves. [Genus Saxifraga.]
Origin
ME: from OFr. saxifrage or late L. saxifraga (herba), from L. saxum 'rock' + frangere 'break'.
Saxifraga         
  • S. rotundifolia]]''), whose sticky leaves seem to catch small [[invertebrate]]s
  • 
''[[Saxifraga urumoffii]]'' at the [[Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh]].
GENUS OF PLANTS
Megasea; Boecherarctica; Zahlbrucknera; Saxifrage; Stone Breakers; Stone breakers; Saxifrages
·noun A genus of exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing about one hundred and eighty species. ·see Saxifrage.

Wikipedia

Saxifraga cernua

Saxifraga cernua, the drooping saxifrage, nodding saxifrage or bulblet saxifrage, is a flower common all over the High Arctic. It stretches further south in mountainous areas of the Alps, Norway, Iceland, Siberia and Alaska.

It grows to 10–20 cm tall and the stem has 3–7 leaves. The basal and lower stern leaves are kidney-shaped, 3–5 lobed on long petioles. The flowers are mostly single and terminal. Petals are white and are much longer than the sepals. The plant reproduces by means of brownish-red bulbils in the axils of the upper stem leaves. Flowers bloom June to August.

This plant grows in moist sandy and mossy places, on ledges and in snow beds.

It became a protected species in the UK in 1975 under the Conservation of Wild Creatures and Wild Plants Act.