Definition of Gerardia pedicularia

1. Noun. Multi-stemmed North American annual having solitary axillary dark golden-yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia.

Exact synonyms: Aureolaria Pedicularia, False Foxglove
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Aureolaria, Genus Aureolaria

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gerardia Pedicularia

Gerald Ford
Gerald R. Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford
Geraldine
Geraniaceae
Geraniales
Geranium maculatum
Geranium molle
Geranium pratense
Geranium richardsonii
Geranium robertianum
Geranium viscosissimum
Gerard
Gerard Depardieu
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerardia pedicularia (current term)
Gerardia virginica
Gerardus Mercator
Gerbera
Gerbera jamesonii
Gerbich antigen
Gerbillus
Gerbode defect
Gerda
Gerdy's fibres
Gerdy's fontanel
Gerdy's hyoid fossa
Gerdy's interatrial loop
Gerdy's ligament
Gerdy's tubercle

Literary usage of Gerardia pedicularia

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

1. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1886)
"Bees on gerardia pedicularia, L. (Bull. Torrey bot. club, Oct. 1871. ... Perforation of gerardia pedicularia Ivr bees. (Amer, nat., Nov. ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"... glabrous outside, its tube much expanded above; capsule &"-io" long, pubescent, twice as long as the calyx. Gerardia pedicularia L. Sp. PI. 611. 1753. ..."

3. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman, Daniel Cady Eaton (1860)
"(Gerardia pedicularia, L.)—Dry sandy soil, chiefly in the upper districts, Mississippi to North Carolina, and northward. July and Aug. ..."

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