Definition of Heterotheca

1. Noun. Genus of yellow-flowered North American herbs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterotheca

Heteranthera dubia
Heterobasidiomycetes
Heterodon
Heterodoxus spiniger
Heterokontae
Heterokontophyta
Heteromeles
Heteromeles arbutifolia
Heteromyidae
Heterophyes
Heteropoda
Heteroscelus
Heteroscelus incanus
Heterosomata
Heterostraci
Heterotheca (current term)
Heterotheca villosa
Heterotrichales
Hettie
Heubner's arteritis
Heuchera
Heuchera americana
Heuchera cylindrica
Heuchera sanguinea
Heuser's membrane
Hevea
Hevea brasiliensis
Hevesy
Hew

Literary usage of Heterotheca

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

1. Ethnobotany and Medicinal Plants: Bibliography: January 1990-June 1991 by Susan A. McCarthy (1993)
"Language: German Descriptors: Mexico; Heterotheca; Flowers; Plant extracts; Flavonoids; Medicinal plants 191 NAL Call No: 450 Q22 Flavonoids and coumarins ..."

2. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"... a capital initial letter.1 Karely such a name is in the genitive ; as Heterotheca ... meaning a species of Heterotheca with the aspect of a Chrysopsis. ..."

3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Heterotheca. Compositae. From Greek, with "dissimilar cases", alluding to achenes. Herbs with rather large flower heads (yellow). ..."

4. Handbook of the Flora of Philadelphia and Vicinity: Containing Data Relating by Ida Augusta Keller, Stewardson Brown (1905)
"Gum-plant. M. p. 928. Introduced from the West. Summer. Philadelphia—Girard Point (Cr.). Gloucester—Harrisonville (Li.). 9. Heterotheca Cass. 1. Heterotheca ..."

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