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Definition of Blue marguerite
1. Noun. Hairy South African or Australian subshrub that has daisylike flowers with blue rays.
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Felicia, Genus Felicia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Marguerite
Literary usage of Blue marguerite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by Esther Baldwin York (1906)
"The blue marguerite —No particular season of the year can be assigned for the
blooming of this pretty blue-Sowered composite, ..."
2. Gardening (1905)
"Some of the young pieces which have roots should be selected ; If carefully potted
up they will grow away readily and make good plants. A blue marguerite. ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"blue marguerite. Fig. 1479. An old greenhouse plant, 1-2 ft., with roundish ovate
opposite Ivs. and large, solitary heads of an exquisite sky-blue. ..."