Definition of Loiseleuria

1. Noun. One species: alpine azalea.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Loiseleuria

Logania
Loganiaceae
Loglan
Logo
Logos
Logres
Logroño
Lohlein-Baehr lesion
Lohmann reaction
Loire
Loire-Atlantique
Loire River
Loire Vally
Loiret
Lois
Loiseleuria
Loiseleuria procumbens
Loja
Lojban
Lojbanist
Lojbanists
Lojbanize
Lok
Lokasenna
Lokean
Lokeans
Loki
Lola
Lola Montez

Literary usage of Loiseleuria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appalachia by Appalachian Mountain Club (1879)
"The alpine azalea (loiseleuria procumbens), the most beautiful and brilliant of all our alpine plants, though above 1582 metres, extends over large areas, ..."

2. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1905)
"In the following the ovary is composed of five carpels :— Lime Sumach Cydonia Arbutus Andromeda Azalea Ailanthus Pyrus Ivy Bearberry loiseleuria ..."

3. Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared by Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot (1850)
"La Tourne, higher Jura, and lower Alps. loiseleuria procumbens Des. Pastures of the Alps. Andromeda polifolia L. Peat bogs of the higher Jura. ..."

4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... have zygomorphic flowers; the rest of the Ericales have actinomorphic flowers. In loiseleuria, and in the ..."

5. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"Azalea or loiseleuria. Jour. Arnold Arboretum 2: 156-159. 1921.—The different conceptions of the genus Azalea are discussed and the conclusion reached that ..."

6. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"loiseleuria PROCUMBENS. countless fine naked stems of 3 inches or less, ... loiseleuria procumbens is a little alpine Azalea, trailing tiny flat masses, ..."

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