Definition of Pieris floribunda

1. Noun. Ornamental evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small white bell-shaped flowers.

Exact synonyms: Fetterbush, Mountain Andromeda, Mountain Fetterbush
Group relationships: Genus Pieris, Pieris
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pieris Floribunda

Pidyon Haben
Piedmont
Piedmont glacier
Piedmont type of glacier
Piedmontese
Piedraia
Piemonte
Piemontese
Pier Luigi Nervi
Pierce
Pieria
Pierian
Pieridae
Pieris
Pieris floribunda (current term)
Pieris japonica
Pieris protodice
Pieris rapae
Pierre
Pierre-Paul Broca
Pierre Abelard
Pierre Athanase Larousse
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
Pierre Corneille
Pierre Curie
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
Pierre Laporte Bridge

Literary usage of Pieris floribunda

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)
"Pieris floribunda (X 2>á-5 in. long; corolla ovate, not angled, Ч in. or slightly longer. April, May. Japan. RB 11:10. BH 21:19. On. 12:98 and p. ..."

2. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"MOUNTAIN FETTER BUSH (420)—Andro- da floribunda (Pieris floribunda). to the last but the flowers are much larger and in drooping clusters and the plant is ..."

3. Aristocrats of the Garden by Ernest Henry Wilson (1917)
"Another very hardy member of the Heath family is Pieris floribunda (better known as Andromeda floribunda), which opens its small, white, Heather-like ..."

4. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster (1908)
"Pieris floribunda (syns Andromeda floribunda and Leucothoe floribunda).—United States, 1812. Few perfectly hardy shrubs are more beautiful than this, ..."

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