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Definition of Spraguea
1. Noun. Small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Portulacaceae, Portulacaceae, Purslane Family
Member holonyms: Calyptridium Umbellatum, Pussy's-paw, Pussy-paw, Pussy-paws, Spraguea Umbellatum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spraguea
Literary usage of Spraguea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1889)
"If it is purposed to keep Spraguea in the rank of a genus, it will need a less
dubious support in the Synoptical Flora than has been brought ..."
2. Erythea: A Journal of Botany, West American and General by Willis Linn Jepson (1895)
"282) has thought it to be "Spraguea umbellata" and so catalogued it His presuming
to reinstate Spraguea is therefore singularly infelicitous. ..."
3. Muhlenbergia: A Journal of Botany edited by Amos Arthur Heller, Patrick Beveridge Kennedy (1906)
"It has never been properly described, but some day we hope to find it again here
in California, and carefully diagnose it in the living state. Spraguea 1n ..."
4. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"... and Spraguea umbellata agree very closely with Portulaca except that the seeds
of Spraguea are thickest in the middle and taper to each end, ..."
5. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Flower buds used for a sweetmeat. Fruit laxative, esculent. 1899. Spraguea, Tor.
Spraguea. Portulacaceae. Herbs closely related to Claytonia. ..."
6. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1906)
"RANGE: British Columbia to Oregon in the coast region. SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Seattle,
Piper 241. ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Humid Transition. Spraguea. 1. ..."
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