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Definition of Golden club
1. Noun. Aquatic plant of the southeastern United States having blue-green leaves and a spadix resembling a club covered with tiny yellow flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Orontium, Orontium
Generic synonyms: Aquatic Plant, Hydrophyte, Hydrophytic Plant, Water Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Golden Club
Literary usage of Golden club
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"A first cousin of cruel Jack-in-the-pulpit, the skunk cabbage, and the water-arum (see
page 155), a poor relation also of the calla lily, the golden club ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Orontium aquaticum, or golden club, is a hardy, native, aquatic plant, ...
golden club. Blade of Ivs. 5-12 x 2-5 in.: stalk 4-20 in. long: scape %-2 ft. ..."
3. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"But the golden club, which looks something like a calla stripped of her lovely
white robe, has not lacked protection for its little buds from the cold ..."
4. Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, N.C. (1907)
"golden club. A waterside plant with beautiful velvety dark green foliage.
Grows naturally from Massachusetts to Florida and Louisiana. ..."
5. A Guide to the Wild Flowers by Alice Lounsberry (1899)
"Of all the aquatics the golden club is perhaps the most curious. It is a simple
member of its family. The Arums have been most careful to envelope their ..."
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