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Definition of Heterotheca
1. Noun. Genus of yellow-flowered North American herbs.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Chrysopsis Villosa, Hairy Golden Aster, Heterotheca Villosa, Prairie Golden Aster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterotheca
Literary usage of Heterotheca
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ethnobotany and Medicinal Plants: Bibliography: January 1990-June 1991 by Susan A. McCarthy (1993)
"Language: German Descriptors: Mexico; heterotheca; Flowers; Plant extracts;
Flavonoids; Medicinal plants 191 NAL Call No: 450 Q22 Flavonoids and coumarins ..."
2. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"... a capital initial letter.1 Karely such a name is in the genitive ; as heterotheca
... meaning a species of heterotheca with the aspect of a Chrysopsis. ..."
3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"heterotheca. Compositae. From Greek, with "dissimilar cases", alluding to achenes.
Herbs with rather large flower heads (yellow). ..."
4. Handbook of the Flora of Philadelphia and Vicinity: Containing Data Relating by Ida Augusta Keller, Stewardson Brown (1905)
"Gum-plant. M. p. 928. Introduced from the West. Summer. Philadelphia—Girard
Point (Cr.). Gloucester—Harrisonville (Li.). 9. heterotheca Cass. 1. heterotheca ..."
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