In Louis L'Amour's novel, Jubal Sackett, we find him at one point desperate for food, and he picks and eats a plant called saxifrage. There are 473 species in the genus Saxifraga, which is the largest genus in the family Saxifragacaea. In the Latin, saxifraga literally means "stone breaker," which is supposed to denote is use in treating kidney stones. Pictured below is round-leaved saxifrage.
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