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Definition of Pickeringia
1. Noun. One species: chaparral pea.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Chaparral Pea, Pickeringia Montana, Stingaree-bush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickeringia
Literary usage of Pickeringia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some American Medical Botanists Commemorated in Our Botanical Nomenclature by Howard Atwood Kelly (1914)
"CHARLES PICKERING 1805-1878 Pickeringia Montana*—NUTTALL Charles Pickering, known
to the scientific world as an anthropologist and botanist, was of good New ..."
2. A Popular California Flora: Or, Manual of Botany for Beginners ... : to by Volney Rattan (1888)
"Pickeringia is probably not found beyond the boundary of California. ... 1 Shrub;
purple flowers Pickeringia. 2 Leaves unequally pinnate; shrubby; ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Lvs. bright green, red or wine- colored when young, opposite: fr. black. E.
Indies. AAA. Fls. purple or black-dolled. Pickeringia, Torr. ..."
4. The Mountains of California by John Muir (1907)
"... and blooming shrubs from three to ten feet high ; manzanita and ceanothus of
several species, mixed with rhamnus, cercis, pickeringia, cherry, ..."
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