Lexic.us

Definition of Moss pink

1. Noun. Low wiry-stemmed branching herb or southern California having fringed pink flowers.

2. Noun. Low tufted perennial phlox with needlelike evergreen leaves and pink or white flowers; native to United States and widely cultivated as a ground cover.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moss Pink

mosquitos moss moss-grown moss-lichen wetland moss-trooper moss agate moss animal moss campion moss family moss frog

moss genus moss green moss lawn moss locust moss phlox moss pink (current term) moss starch mossback mossbacked mossbacks

mossbunker mossed mosser mossers mosses mossgrown mossie mossier mossies mossiest

Literary usage of Moss pink

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

1. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"moss pink. (PHLOX SUBULATA.) The hardy columbines in the season of bloom are all specially attractive. In early spring we have the Canada columbine ..."

2. Lawns and Gardens: How to Plant and Beautify the Home Lot, the Pleasure by Nils Jönsson-Rose (1897)
"The best spring- flowering kinds are : P. subulata, the moss pink; leaves awl-shaped; stems procumbent, forming Fia. t54.-woss PINK (PHLOX SUBULATA). dense ..."

3. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"POLEMONIUM FAMILY (Polemoniaceae) Ground or moss pink Phlox subulata ... Far beyond its natural range, as well as within it, the moss pink glows in gardens, ..."

4. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons (1895)
"Although from their English names the Wild Pink and the moss pink would seem to be allied, a reference to their generic and family tides shows them to ..."

5. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"The moss pink sets the garden ablaze with brilliant bloom, and lights up the desolation of early May. The depressed stems with their little sharp- pointed ..."

6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Moss PINK. Fig. 17ti:(. ... petiole plano-convex, usually spiny, with ver)r short rigid pinna?; sheaths short. 1763. Phlox subulate, or moss pink ..."

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