Lexic.us

Definition of Golden ragwort

1. Noun. Weedy herb of the eastern United States to Texas having golden-yellow flowers; sometimes becomes invasive; sometimes placed in genus Senecio.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Golden Ragwort

Literary usage of Golden ragwort

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of Lessons in Botany: For the Use of Teachers, Or Mothers Studying by Jane Hancox Newell (1892)
"This is because the style and stigma are useless in the staminate flowers, and therefore undeveloped. golden ragwort (Senecio ..."

2. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons (1895)
"A child would perhaps liken the flower of the golden ragwort to a yellow daisy. ... Closely allied to the golden ragwort is the common groundsel, ..."

3. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia W. Henshaw (1915)
"golden ragwort Senecio Balsamita. Composite Family Perennial, often tufted. Stems: slender, woolly at the base and in the axils of the lower leaves. ..."

4. Catalogue of the Flora of Minnesota Including Its Phaenogamous and Vascular by Warren Upham (1884)
"S. aureus, L. golden ragwort. Squaw-weed. Life-root. Common, or frequent, throughout the state, in some portions abundant. ..."

5. The Story of Drugs: A Popular Exposition of Their Origin, Preparation and by Henry Corbin Fuller (1922)
"It is the golden ragwort or life-root, famous as a tonic and diuretic, which is sought for as an ingredient of some well known "female" remedies. ..."

6. Text-book of Western Botany: Consisting of Coulter's Manual of the Botany of by John Merle Coulter, Asa Gray (1885)
"With this golden ragwort in hand, the student should first bisect vertically the so-called "flower," when he will discover some such arrangement as is ..."

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