Definition of Ratibida

1. Noun. Genus of perennial wildflowers of North American plains and prairies; often cultivated for their showy flower heads.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ratibida

Rastafari
Rastafarian
Rastafarianism
Rastafarians
Rastaman
Rastamen
Rastas
Rastelli's operation
Rastus
Rathke's bundles
Rathke's cleft cyst
Rathke's diverticulum
Rathke's pouch
Rathke's pouch tumour
Rathnupur
Ratibida
Ratibida columnaris
Ratibida columnifera
Ratibida tagetes
Ratner
Rattigan
Rattus
Rattus norvegicus
Rattus rattus
Rau's process
Rau-Sed
Rauber
Rauber's layer
Raudixin
Raul

Literary usage of Ratibida

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

1. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1916)
"The variations of Dahlia, Helianthus, ratibida, etc., run so closely parallel that ... Although ratibida is so different in many respects from Helianthus, ..."

2. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"ratibida columnaris (Sims) D. Don. in Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. II. pi. 361. ... ratibida Tagetes (James) Barnhart, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 24: 410. 1897. ..."

3. Floral Succession in the Prairie-grass Formation of Southeastern South Dakota by Le Roy Harris Harvey (1908)
"Late estival aspect; ratibida columnaris upon a middle slope; ... ratibida is a perennial from a thick root. The achenes are provided with a diminutive ..."

4. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"ratibida pinnata (Vent.) Bamh. Prairie coneflower Herbaceous perennial Dry fields, limestone upland and open roadsides. • Rudbeckia fulgida Ait. var. ..."

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