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Definition of Beach wormwood

1. Noun. Herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beach Wormwood

Literary usage of Beach wormwood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of the Wild and Cultivated Flowering Plants by Chester Arthur Darling (1912)
"... bracts of involucre lanceolate or oblong; plant usually white-woolly throughout beach wormwood. ..."

2. Sand Dunes and Salt Marches by Charles Wendell Townsend (1913)
"The beach wormwood is another plant of these sandy regions, a plant brought from northwestern Asia, but one that has rapidly increased in numbers on the ..."

3. Publication by Michigan, Michigan Geological Survey, Geological and Biological Survey (1921)
"beach wormwood. Sandy open ground as a permanent escape from Bay County to St. Ignace. Often on sand dunes. Artemisia biennis Willd. Biennial wormwood. ..."

4. Bulletin by State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut (1910)
"beach wormwood. Old Woman. Occasional on sea-shores in New London County (Graves). July — Aug. Naturalized from Asia. Sometimes cultivated for ornament. ..."

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