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golden saxifrage

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Noun1.golden saxifrage - any of various low aquatic herbs of the genus Chrysosplenium
Chrysosplenium, genus Chrysosplenium - genus of widely distributed semiaquatic herbs with minute greenish-yellow apetalous flowers
Chrysosplenium americanum, water carpet, water mat - aquatic herb with yellowish flowers; central and western United States
aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant - a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth


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Peter explains: "Plant highlights included alternate leaved golden saxifrage, marsh valerian and early purple orchids.
In an atmosphere kept perpetually moist by clouds of spray, conditions were perfect for feathery mosses and scaly liverworts that smothered steep banks where the first spring flowers - golden saxifrage and barren strawberry - were beginning to open.
Protection of algific talus slopes may help prevent the need for threatened or endangered status for these other snails and plants like the golden saxifrage (Chrysosplenium iowense).
 
 
 
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