Editing Saxifragaceae (section)

{{Short description|Family of flowering plants in the Eudicot order Saxifragales}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Foamflower.jpg
|image_caption = ''[[Tiarella]]''<br/>(Foamflower)
|taxon = Saxifragaceae
|authority = [[Antoine Laurent de Jussieu|Juss.]]
|subdivision_ranks = Clades
|subdivision = See text
|range_map = Saxifragaceae Distribution.svg
|range_map_caption = The range of Saxifragaceae
|type_genus = ''[[Saxifraga]]''
|type_genus_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]
}}
[[File:Saxifraga granulata 140505.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[Saxifraga granulata]]''|alt=Flowers of Saxifraga granulata]]
[[File:Astilbe rivularis - Flickr - peganum (1).jpg|thumb|upright|''[[Astilbe rivularis]]''|alt=Astilbe rivularis]]

'''Saxifragaceae''' is a family of [[Herbaceous plant|herbaceous]] [[Perennial plant|perennial]] [[flowering plant]]s, within the [[core eudicot]] [[Order (biology)|order]] Saxifragales. The [[Taxonomy (biology)|taxonomy]] of the family has been greatly revised and the scope much reduced in the era of [[Molecular phylogenetics|molecular phylogenetic]] analysis. The family is divided into ten [[clade]]s, 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.