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Definition of Flannel bush
1. Noun. Any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers.
Group relationships: Fremontia, Fremontodendron, Genus Fremontia, Genus Fremontodendron
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flannel Bush
Literary usage of Flannel bush
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"flannel bush. Evergreen; loosely branching and bush-like, 6 to 10 ft. high, rarely
a small tree as much as 18 ft. high; branches tough and flexible, ..."
2. Outdoor Heritage by Harold Child Bryant (1919)
"are false slippery elm, because of the taste of the bark, leatherwood, from the
tough fibrous nature of the wood, and flannel bush, from the soft flannel ..."
3. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"flannel bush (Fremontia calif ornica) is a diffuse though tall shrub in the Sierra
Nevada; near Cajon Pass, in Southern California it assumes a far more ..."
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