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Definition of Hoary puccoon
1. Noun. Perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Lithospermum, Lithospermum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoary Puccoon
Literary usage of Hoary puccoon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Floral Succession in the Prairie-grass Formation of Southeastern South Dakota by Le Roy Harris Harvey (1908)
"The hoary puccoon occurs throughout with the other, but more abundantly.
Its orange-yellow flowers in a compact leafless umbel make it perhaps the most ..."
2. Introduction to Botany by William Chase Stevens (1902)
"hoary puccoon. Perennial, pubescent, and somewhat hoary, 6 to 18 inches high.
Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, blunt, downy beneath and roughish above. ..."
3. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"Herb.: Grand Forks. LITHOSPERMUM CANESCENS Lehm. Puccoon of the Indians.
hoary puccoon. Found everywhere on open prairies. AC Herb.: Hope 510. Fargo, Page. ..."
4. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"Its leaves are slenderer than those of the hoary puccoon and have not the same
white-hairy appearance, though they are rough to the touch. ..."
5. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"(hoary puccoon or ALKANET.) Softly hairy and more or less hoary (6r- 15' high) ;
leaves obtuse, linear-oblong, or the upper ovate-oblong, more or less downy ..."
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