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Definition of False heather
1. Noun. North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Hudsonia, Hudsonia
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Lexicographical Neighbors of False Heather
Literary usage of False heather
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mountain Wild Flowers of America: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names by Julia W. Henshaw (1906)
"B. intermedius, or Pink false heather, is a much rarer plant and is found in
comparatively few localities. I first reported it from the Selkirk Mountains in ..."
2. Mountain Wild Flowers of Canada: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names and by Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1906)
"B. intermedius, or Pink false heather, is a much rarer plant and is found in
comparatively few localities. I first reported it from the Selkirk Mountains in ..."
3. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... and a strength of growth almost unrivalled prevails, the false heather climbs
sometimes to the tops of such high peaks as Mount Mitchell and there ..."
4. Glacier National Park: Its Trails and Treasures by Mathilde Edith Holtz, Katharine Isabel Bemis (1917)
"Heather: Frequently associated with the heath and flowering at the same time,
June and July, is the white false heather. The linear leaves of this species ..."
5. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"L. false heather, etc. Cistaceae. Named for William Hudson, ... Canada and
northeastern US Woolly Hudsonia, false heather, Beach Heather, Heath, Bear-grass, ..."
6. Mazama: A Record of Mountaineering in the Pacific Northwest by Or Mazamas (Portland, Mazamas (Portland, Or.) (1907)
"... Mrs. Henshaw's book refers to the flowers of the Glandular False-heather
as "cream-colored"—and though the specific description in Professor Brown's ..."
7. Report: New York by Otis Stuart (1904)
"69 Fagopyrum 72 Fagus 69 Falcata 94 false heather 100 False Mermaid Family .:..
97 Families of Plants not represented on the Pine Plains 17 Families, ..."
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