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Definition of Saxifraga stellaris
1. Noun. Small often mat-forming alpine plant having small starlike white flowers; Europe.
Group relationships: Genus Saxifraga, Saxifraga
Generic synonyms: Breakstone, Rockfoil, Saxifrage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saxifraga Stellaris
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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