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Definition of Crownbeard
1. Noun. Any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads.
Generic synonyms: Composite, Composite Plant
Group relationships: Genus Verbesina, Verbesina
Specialized synonyms: Actinomeris Alternifolia, Golden Honey Plant, Golden Ironweed, Verbesina Alternifolia, Wingstem, Yellow Ironweed, Butter Daisy, Cowpen Daisy, Golden Crown Beard, Golden Crownbeard, Verbesina Encelioides, Ximenesia Encelioides, Gravelweed, Verbesina Helianthoides, Frost-weed, Frostweed, Verbesina Virginica, Virginia Crownbeard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crownbeard
Literary usage of Crownbeard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1912)
"This disease on the crownbeard (Verbesina texana Buckl.) is characterized by the
presence of irregular, yellowish-brown areas, 5 to 10 mm. in diameter, ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"On dry prairies and in thickets, Ohio to Georgia, west to Iowa, Missouri and Texas.
June-July. 4. Verbesina encelioides (Cav.) A. Gray. Golden crownbeard. ..."
3. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"V. Virginica, small white crownbeard, varies perceptibly from the preceding
species in bearing flower-heads which are larger and which produce white rays. ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"crownbeard. About 50 species of American herbs, annual or perennial (some tropical
species shrubby), with alternate or opposite, often decurrent Ivs. and ..."
5. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"... the shorn surfaces in order to retard recovery. Small areas may be grubbed
out or hand- pulled when the ground is soft. SUNFLOWER crownbeard Verbesina ..."
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