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Definition of Phacelia whitlavia
1. Noun. Desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes.
Generic synonyms: Phacelia, Scorpion Weed, Scorpionweed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phacelia Whitlavia
Literary usage of Phacelia whitlavia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"... as in the previous sections, but strongly transversely corrugated. 1731.
Phacelia whitlavia (X 12. ..."
2. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1883)
"... now called Phacelia whitlavia, but is altogether different in the splendid
blue colour of its blossoms, which is fully as intense as in the ..."
3. Zoe: A Biological Journal by Townshend Stith Brandegee, Katharine Layne Brandegee (1891)
"Phacelia whitlavia Gray is a well-known species common in the hills and lower
mountains of southern California. It is an annual, with ovate or cordate ..."
4. California Plants in Their Homes: A Botanical Reader for Children by Alice Merritt Davidson (1898)
"45, is Phacelia whitlavia, with great, bell- shaped flowers of royal purple.
Its flowers are really magnificent, but they are not so clever as those of the ..."
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