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Definition of Clintonia borealis
1. Noun. Common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits.
Group relationships: Genus Clintonia
Generic synonyms: Clinton's Lily, Clintonia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clintonia Borealis
Literary usage of Clintonia borealis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Six species, the following of eastern North America, 2 of western North America,
2 Asiatic. Type species : clintonia borealis (Ait.) Raf. ..."
2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"As regards distribution, clintonia borealis is more northerly and much more widely
distributed than C. umbellulata. It occurs 4 See GATES, R. RUGGLES, ..."
3. Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1895)
"clintonia borealis. clintonia borealis is a pretty little pale straw-yellow lily
whose only fault, it seems to me, lies in its weak and uncertain coloring. ..."
4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1913)
"Some species, as for example Phegopteris polypodioides, Arisaema triphyllum,
clintonia borealis and Coptis trifolia, are characteristic of low woods. ..."
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