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Definition of Purple saxifrage
1. Noun. Plants forming dense cushions with bright reddish-lavender flowers; rocky areas of Europe and Asia and western North America.
Group relationships: Genus Saxifraga, Saxifraga
Generic synonyms: Breakstone, Rockfoil, Saxifrage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purple Saxifrage
Literary usage of Purple saxifrage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1863)
"The loveliest of the whole tribe is the purple saxifrage, which, fortunately, is
as common as it is beautiful. It grows in the barest and bleakest spots on ..."
2. Hardy Flowers: Descriptions of Upwards of Thirteen Hundred of the Most by William Robinson (1878)
"Saxifraga oppositifolia (purple saxifrage).—A brilliant native species, ...
Saxifraga retusa (Retuse S.) — A pretty kind, allied to the purple saxifrage. ..."
3. The Vegetable World: Being a History of Plants, with Their Botanical by Louis Figuier (1869)
"These I have surveyed as I would survey an old friend. The purple saxifrage (S.
oppositifolia) was the first plant I recognised; I had gathered it on the ..."
4. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William Macgillivray (1837)
"purple saxifrage. Leaves egg-shaped, opposite, prostrate: flowers large, with
purplish red petals. Perennial: flowers in May and June : grows in rocky ..."
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