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Definition of Gay-feather
1. Noun. Any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads.
Generic synonyms: Wild Flower, Wildflower
Group relationships: Genus Liatris, Liatris
Specialized synonyms: Dotted Gayfeather, Liatris Punctata, Dense Blazing Star, Liatris Pycnostachya
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Literary usage of Gay-feather
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"L. pycnostachya, Kansas gay-feather, comes from the prairies of the far West,
and grows five feet high, with a very dense spike of flowers ten to twenty ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"Dense button-snakeroot; colic-root; prairie-pine; gay-feather; rattlesnake-
master; corn-snakeroot; backache-root. Native, perennial herb, 2 to 5 feet high, ..."
3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Large Button-Snakeroot, gay-feather, Rattlesnake's- master, Blue Blazing-star,
Devil 's-bit. Root of this and following species reputed diuretic, ..."
4. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"The Large Button Snakeroot, Blue Blazing Star, or Gay Feather (L. scariosa), ...
The name of gay feather, miscellaneously applied to several blazing stars, ..."
5. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1890)
"Gay feather, button snake- root. Several species of the Liatris are natives of
Minnesota and on account of ... Gay feather, grows in woods and brush lands, ..."
6. The Ohio Educational Monthly by Ohio State Teachers Association (1900)
"... attired brother, gay feather, — L. Scariosa,—whose beautiful clusters of
rose-purple flowers are set in coats of mail which add an additional beauty. ..."
7. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"The Large Button Snakeroot, Blue Blazing Star, or Gay Feather (L, scariosa), ...
The name of gay feather, miscellaneously applied to several blazing stars, ..."
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