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Definition of Fringed grass of parnassus
1. Noun. Bog plant with broadly heart-shaped basal leaves and cream-colored or white saucer-shaped flowers with fringed petals; west of Rocky Mountains from Alaska to New Mexico.
Generic synonyms: Wild Flower, Wildflower
Group relationships: Genus Parnassia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fringed Grass Of Parnassus
Literary usage of Fringed grass of parnassus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mountain Wild Flowers of Canada: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names and by Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1906)
"Another species of this genus is /'. fimbriata, or Fringed Grass of Parnassus,
also very common in moist places among the mountains. ..."
2. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia W. Henshaw (1915)
"... or Fringed Grass of Parnassus, is also very common in moist places among the
mountains. It closely resembles the plant already described, ..."
3. Studies Scientific & Social by Alfred Russel Wallace (1900)
"... a dwarf Alpine form of Mertensia s-iberica and perhaps the most lovely plant
of the genus; the pretty fringed grass of parnassus ..."
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