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Definition of Genus Prenanthes
1. Noun. Genus of North American and Asiatic perennial herbs having pinnatisect leaves small heads of drooping yellowish to purple flowers; sometimes includes species often placed in genus Nabalus.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Prenanthes Purpurea, Rattlesnake Root
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Prenanthes
Literary usage of Genus Prenanthes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Paradisus Londinensis: Or Coloured Figures of Plants Cultivated in the ...by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker (1807)
"The genus Prenanthes was established by VAILLANT in the Memoirs of the French
Academy for the year 1/21. LINNE, as appears both in the ..."
2. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"The genus Prenanthes is by no means an uncommon one in our woods, and most of
the species flower in autumn. ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"Known by the general name of Rattlesnake-root or Drop-flower. The European and
African genus Prenanthes L., is distinct from this. ..."
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