Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentstemon
Literary usage of Pentstemon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"pentstemon BARBATE. (VAR. TORREYI.) deep blue. It blooms all summer and is very
attractive. Salvia pratensis, meadow-sage, is twelve to eighteen inches high ..."
2. Lawns and Gardens: How to Plant and Beautify the Home Lot, the Pleasure by Nils Jönsson-Rose (1897)
"Shell Flower, pentstemon barbatus.—One of our most beautiful native plants, of
an erect but slender and graceful habit, with bright flowers late in summer. ..."
3. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1842)
"IN the handsome and valuable genus pentstemon, although nearly all the species
are accounted herbaceous perennials, they are principally of a half-shrubby ..."
4. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"The name pentstemon might be applied fitly to other genera of plants, but its
fitness lies in the fact that while these plants agree with most other species ..."
5. Evolution by Atrophy in Biology and Sociology by Jean Demoor, Jean Massart, Emile Vandervelde (1899)
"However, in pentstemon the fifth or posterior stamen is developed, ... An interesting
fact is, that in some hybrid varieties of pentstemon the ..."
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