saxifrage family
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1. 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 (noun.plant)
| member holonym | : | genus saxifraga, saxifraga, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Saxifragaceae; large genus of usually perennial herbs of Arctic and cool regions of northern hemisphere: saxifrage (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus astilbe, |
| definition | : | chiefly Asiatic perennials: spirea (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus bergenia, |
| definition | : | genus of perennial spring-blooming rhizomatous herbs with thick evergreen leaves; eastern Asia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | boykinia, genus boykinia, |
| definition | : | genus of perennial rhizomatous herbs with flowers in panicles; North America; Japan (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | francoa, genus francoa, |
| definition | : | perennial evergreen herbs with white or pink flowers; Chile (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus heuchera, heuchera, |
| definition | : | genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus mitella, mitella, |
| definition | : | genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus parnassia, |
| definition | : | genus of bog herbs of Arctic and northern temperate regions (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus suksdorfia, |
| definition | : | small genus of rhizomatous herbs of northwestern America and South America (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus tellima, tellima, |
| definition | : | genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers; western North America (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus tiarella, tiarella, |
| definition | : | small genus of North American herbs having mostly basal leaves and slender racemes of delicate white flowers (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | order rosales, rosales, |
| definition | : | in some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae (noun.plant) |
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