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Definition of Gayfeather
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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gayfeather
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Literary usage of Gayfeather
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1868)
"Cardinals fed roundhead lespedeza lost 5.4 g/day (13% of pre-trial weight) and
those fed thick- spike gayfeather lost 5.1 g/day (12% of pre-trial weight) ..."
2. Loom and Spindle: Or Life Among the Early Mill Girls: With a Sketch of "The by Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (1898)
"... Grace gayfeather, and many others. In 1848 seven books had been published,
written by contributors to The Lowell Offering. ..."
3. My Garden by Louise Beebe Wilder (1916)
"Crane's Bill Liatris pycnostachya Kansas gayfeather Lythrum Salicaria Purple
loosestrife Hieracium, in var. Hawkweed Anemones " " Windflower Digitalis ..."
4. Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Wild Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Grasses by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (1906)
"... and on islands in our chain of back lakes in Burleigh and Smith, where I have
found the bright gayfeather blooming in the hot month of August. ..."
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