Definition of Comandra pallida

1. Noun. Woody creeping parasite of western North America having numerous thick powdery leaves and panicles of small dull-white flowers.

Exact synonyms: Bastard Toadflax
Group relationships: Comandra, Genus Comandra
Generic synonyms: Parasitic Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Comandra Pallida

Columbidae
Columbiformes
Columbus
Columbus Day
Columbusing
Colutea
Colutea arborescens
Colymbiformes
Com.
Coma Berenices
Comanche
Comanchero
Comancheros
Comanches
Comandra
Comandra pallida
Comatula
Comatulas
Comatulidae
Combiase
Combine
Combretaceae
Combretum appiculatum
Combretum bracteosum
Combretum erythrophyllum
Comby
Comby's sign
Comcomly
Comcáac
Comecon

Literary usage of Comandra pallida

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, Addison Brown (1896)
"comandra pallida A. ... comandra pallida A. DC. Prodr. 14: 636. 1857. Similar to the preceding species but paler and ..."

2. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"comandra pallida A. DC. Prodr. 14: 636. 1857. Stems 1-2 dm. high, arising at somewhat regular intervals from the horizontal rootstock, usually simple: ..."

3. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1905)
"This northern plant has only a superficial resemblance to the western whitish-green much firmer-leaved comandra pallida ; but it is the plant which has been ..."

4. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia W. Henshaw (1915)
"... any description with its panicles of small greenish flowers, coarsely toothed leaves and quantities of stinging hairs. WHITE COMANDRA comandra pallida. ..."

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