Mother-of-thousands (Noun)
Meaning
Eastern Asiatic saxifrage with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The botanical name of mother-of-thousands, Saxifraga stolonifera, reveals its spreading nature.
- The attractive leaves and charming flowers of the mother-of-thousands have earned it a spot in many garden collections.
- When broken, a piece of mother-of-thousands rootstock quickly sends up a stolon with offsets ready to plant elsewhere.
- Over the winter months the clump of mother-of-thousands sits undisturbed beneath its protecting carpet of fall color.
- Happily naturalized areas surrounding small colonies of the parent plants frequently thrive to many spreading clones of the 'Mother of Thousands' also with interesting runners creeping onward forever unalike seemingly relentless many blooms however several time growth sometimes short months especially seed time as flowers as lovely attractive eye-catching leaves.