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Definition of Dwarf daisy
1. Noun. Tiny grey woolly tufted annual with small golden-yellow flower heads; southeastern California to northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah; sometimes placed in genus Eriophyllum.
Generic synonyms: Wild Flower, Wildflower
Group relationships: Antheropeas, Genus Antheropeas
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dwarf Daisy
Literary usage of Dwarf daisy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... Which the Sun into strength and beauty warms, Prom the dwarf daisy, which,
like infanta, clings, And fears to leave the earth from whence it springs, ..."
2. Nature's Invitation: Notes of a Bird-gazer North and South by Bradford Torrey (1904)
"... of the size of a ten-cent piece, with seven or eight white rays and a yellow
disk; a dwarf daisy, it looks to be, with soft, cottony stem and leaves. ..."
3. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"... Which the sun into strength and beauty warms, From the dwarf daisy, which,
like infants, clings, And fears to leave the earth from whence it springs, ..."
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