WordNet
purple saxifrage
n. plants forming dense cushions with bright reddish-lavender flowers; rocky areas of Europe and Asia and western North America [syn: Saxifraga oppositifolia]
Usage examples of "purple saxifrage".
At the base of the cliffs was a bright carpet of lichens and purple saxifrage, fertilized by the guano from the birds.
At first he saw nothing but an unremarkable patch of steppe grass, with a little purple saxifrage.
On the other side lay sedge and moss freckled with purple saxifrage and, behind that, woodland.
And in confirmation, a little Arctic flower, a purple saxifrage, blossomed improbably where the witch had planted it as a signal in a cranny of the rock.