Definition of Saxifraga stellaris

1. Noun. Small often mat-forming alpine plant having small starlike white flowers; Europe.

Exact synonyms: Star Saxifrage, Starry Saxifrage
Group relationships: Genus Saxifraga, Saxifraga
Generic synonyms: Breakstone, Rockfoil, Saxifrage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saxifraga Stellaris

Saxbe fix
Saxe
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Saxe-gothea
Saxe-gothea conspicua
Saxegothea
Saxicola
Saxicola rubetra
Saxicola torquata
Saxifraga aizoides
Saxifraga granulata
Saxifraga hypnoides
Saxifraga occidentalis
Saxifraga oppositifolia
Saxifraga sarmentosam
Saxifraga stellaris (current term)
Saxifraga stolonifera
Saxifragaceae
Saxo Grammaticus
Saxon
Saxon blue
Saxondom
Saxonian
Saxonians
Saxonic
Saxonism
Saxonisms
Saxonist
Saxonists
Saxons

Literary usage of Saxifraga stellaris

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the County of Dublin by John D'Alton (1838)
"By the sides of rivulets and wet rocks, saxifraga stellaris, starry saxifrage; and on calcareous rocks and in their fissures, lichen immersus, ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Saxifraga stellaris L. Star or Starry Saxifrage. (Fig. 1836.) Saxifraga stellaris L. Sp. Pl. 400.. Scape naked below, bracted at the inflorescence, ..."

3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Saxifraga stellaris L. Star or Starry Saxifrage. (Fig. 1836.) Saxifraga stellaris L. Sp. Pl. 4oo.. Scape naked below, bracted at the inflorescence, ..."

4. The Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar by William MacGillivray, Edwin Lankester (1855)
"... Saxifraga stellaris, Alchemilla alpina, and Saxifraga hypnoides, mingle with the ordinary vegetation of the uplands. The alpine species that occur on ..."

5. A Thousand Days in the Arctic by Frederick George Jackson (1899)
"Saxifraga stellaris, L. var. vi1'ipara, is here, but although the soil is apparently quite as ... A starved moss and * Variety. t Saxifraga stellaris. ..."

6. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1844)
"We next ascended Mickle-fell, which is the highest mountain in Yorkshire, being 2600 feet above the level of the sea. Saxifraga stellaris, Sedum villosum ..."

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