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Definition of Heuchera
1. Noun. Genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Saxifragaceae, Saxifragaceae, Saxifrage Family
Member holonyms: Alumbloom, Alumroot, Heuchera Cylindrica, Poker Alumroot, Poker Heuchera, Coralbells, Heuchera Sanguinea
Definition of Heuchera
1. Noun. Any of the genus ''Heuchera'' of herbaceous perennial plants. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heuchera
Literary usage of Heuchera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Materia Medica: For the Use of Students by John Barclay Biddle (1874)
"The RHIZOMES of Heuchera Americana and other species of Heuchera (Nat. Ord.
Saxifragaceae), indigenous plants known under the common name of Alumroot, ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"July-Oct. Heuchera crinita Rydb., from Kentucky and adjacent states, ... May-Aug.
has a leafless flower-stem as in H. americana; but Heuchera ..."
3. Hardy Perennials and Old-fashioned Garden Flowers: Describing the Most by John Wood (1884)
"Cultivation and flowering period are described under Heuchera. Heuchera Glabra.
... Cultivation and flowering period, as given under Heuchera. Heuchera ..."
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