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Definition of Swamp candles
1. Noun. North American plant with spikes of yellow flowers, found in wet places.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swamp Candles
Literary usage of Swamp candles
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 (1913)
"... bulblets freely in the axils in the autumn, and in this condition was mistaken
by Linnaeus for a terrestrial mistletoe. Swamp-candles. July-Sept. 5. ..."
2. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Lysimachia terrestris (L.) BSP Swamp-candles Herbaceous perennial Swamps and bogs.
Lysimachia thyrsiflora L. Tufted loosestrife Herbaceous perennial Bogs ..."
3. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Lysimachia terrestris (L.) BSP Swamp-candles Herbaceous perennial Swamps and bogs.
Lysimachia thyrsiflora L. Tufted loosestrife Herbaceous perennial Bogs ..."
4. Nantucket Wild Flowers by Alice Owen Albertson (1921)
"Yellow Upright Loosestrife, Bulb-bearing Loosestrife, June-August swamp candles.
Lysimachia: for derivation see quadrifolia. Terrestris: Latin for the land ..."
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