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Section Saxifraga
Saxifraga
Saxifraga is the largest genus in the family Saxifragaceae, containing about 440 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 stones), rather than breaking rocks apart.
6 branches of this group, most-observed first
Subsection Saxifraga
subsectionSaxifraga
Tridactylites
subsectionTridactylites
Arachnoideae
subsectionArachnoideae
Androsaceae
subsectionAndrosaceae
Saxifraga wahlenbergii
speciesSaxifraga wahlenbergii
Saxifraga × thrinax
hybridSaxifraga × thrinax
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.285
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.286
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.313
Herbarius
1485 · p.286
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.283
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.396
Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.285
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.233
Garden of Health
1507 · p.320
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.192
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.281
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.764
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Saxifraga in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 942786.