SAXIFRAGACEAE

'Saxifragaceae' is a plant family with about 460 known species in 36 genera. In Europe there are 12 genera.
The flowers are hermaphrodite and actinomorphic. They have 4 or 5 petals and 5 or ten stamens.
Well known species include:

★ ''Bergenia cordata''

★ ''Saxifraga ×umbrosa''

★ ''Saxifraga stellaris''

★ ''Saxifraga oppositifolia''

★ ''Saxifraga paniculata''
The Parnassiaceae have sometimes been treated as part of this family, although they are only distantly genetically related.

Contents

Genera

Genera

★ ''Abrophyllum'' Hook. f. ex Benth.

★ ''Astilbe'' Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don -- false goat's beard

★ ''Astilboides''

★ ''Bensoniella'' Morton

★ ''Bergenia''

★ ''Bolandra'' Gray -- false coolwort

★ ''Boykinia'' Nutt -- brookfoam

★ ''Chondrosea

★ ''Chrysosplenium'' L. -- golden saxifrage

★ ''Conimitella'' Rydb.

★ ''Darmera'' Voss

★ ''Deutzia''

★ ''Elmera'' Rydb. -- coralbells

★ ''Hemieva'' Raf.

★ ''Heuchera'' L. -- alumroot

★ ''Jepsonia'' Small

★ ''Leptarrhena'' R. Br.

★ ''Lithophragma'' (Nutt.) Torr. & Gray -- woodland-star, woodlandstar

★ ''Micranthes'' Haw.

★ ''Mitella'' L. -- miterwort

★ ''Mukdenia''

★ ''Oresitrophe''

★ ''Peltiphyllum'' (Engl.) Engl.

★ ''Rodgersia''

★ ''Saxifraga'' L. -- saxifrage

★ ''Saxifragella''

★ ''Saxifragodes''

★ ''Saxifragopsis'' Small -- saxifragopsis

★ ''Suksdorfia'' Gray

★ ''Sullivantia'' Torr. & Gray ex Gray -- coolwort

★ ''Tanakaea''

★ ''Telesonix'' Raf. -- brookfoam

★ ''Tellima'' R. Br.

★ ''Tiarella'' L. -- foamflower

★ ''Tolmiea'' Torr. & Gray -- youth on age