Saxifragaceae

Saxifragaceae
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Saxifragales
Faimily:	Saxifragaceae Juss.
Genera
Mony, see text.

Saxifragaceae is a plant faimily wi aboot 460 kent species in 36 genera. In Europe thare are 12 genera.

The flouers are hermaphroditic an actinomorphic. Thay hae 4 or 5 petals an 5 or 10 stamens.

Weel kent species include:

• Bergenia cordifolia
• Saxifraga umbrosa
• Saxifraga stellaris
• Saxifraga oppositifolia
• Saxifraga paniculata
• Heuchera x brizoides

Parnassiaceae hae sometimes been treatit as pairt o this faimily, altho thay are anly distantly genetically relatit.

Genera

• Astilbe – false goat's-beards
• Astilboides
• Bensoniella – Oregon Bensoniella
• Bergenia
• Bolandra – false cuilworts
• Boykinia – brookfoams
• Chondrosea – Pyramidal Saxifrage (sometimes included in Saxifraga)
• Chrysosplenium – golden-saxifrages
• Conimitella Rydb.
• Darmera – Indian Rhubarb
• Elmera Rydb. –
• Hemieva Raf.
• Heuchera – Coral Bells
• Hieronymusia
• Jepsonia
• Leptarrhena R.Br.
• Lithophragma – woodlandstars

• Micranthes Haw.
• Mitella – miterworts
• Mukdenia – mukdenias
• Oresitrophe
• Peltiphyllum (Engl.) Engl.
• Rodgersia
• Saniculiphyllum
• Saxifraga – saxifrages
• Saxifragella Engl. (sometimes included in Saxifraga)
• Saxifragodes
• Saxifragopsis Small – saxifragopsises (sometimes included in Saxifraga)
• Suksdorfia Gray
• Sullivantia Torr. & Gray ex Gray – coolworts
• Tanakaea
• Telesonix Raf.
• Tellima – Fringecups
• Tiarella – foamflowers
• Tolmiea – Piggyback Plant

Freemit airtins

• Saxifragaceae in Topwalks Archived 2013-07-19 at the Wayback Machine