saxifrage family
Saxifragaceae
Saxifragaceae is a family of herbaceous perennial flowering plants, within the core eudicot order Saxifragales. The taxonomy of the family has been greatly revised and the scope much reduced in the era of molecular phylogenetic analysis. The family is divided into ten clades, with about 640 known species in about 35 accepted genera. About half of these consist of a single species, but about 400 of the species are in the type genus Saxifraga. The family is predominantly distributed in the northern hemisphere, but also in the Andes in South America.
10 branches of this family, most-observed first
alumroot tribe
tribeHeuchereae
saxifrage tribe
tribeSaxifrageae
early saxifrage tribe
tribeMicrantheae
golden saxifrage tribe
tribeChrysosplenieae
elephant-ear tribe
tribeDarmereae
brookfoam tribe
tribeBoykinieae
false goat's beard tribe
tribeAstilbeae
leather-leaf saxifrage tribe
tribeLeptarrheneae
Nuttall's saxifrage tribe
tribeCascadieae
Saniculiphylleae
tribeSaniculiphylleae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48386.