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Definition of Obedient plant
1. Noun. North American plant having a spike of two-lipped pink or white flowers.
Generic synonyms: Physostegia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obedient Plant
Literary usage of Obedient plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"plant is also called "catnip" but it is better known as "giant hyssop".
The peculiarly appropiate name of "obedient plant" is applied to Physostegia ..."
2. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"Although we may not be so fortunate as to find the obedient plant in the wildest
parts of its range, there is still a chance that, near some cabin's doorway ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"Common names or, if you please, vernacular names, are still being coined—Christmas
fern, foam flower, boulder fern, Darwin tulip, and obedient plant are ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"... is frequent in gardens and is sometimes called the obedient plant because its
corolla will stay for a while in whatever position it is turned, ..."
5. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"Known in some places as obedient plant; according to Britton the corolla temporarily
remains in whatever position it is placed. The plant is well worthy of ..."
6. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Canada and Eastern US False Dragon-head, Obedient-plant, Lion's-heart. 1582.
PHYSOSTIGMA, Balfour. Calabar Bean. Papilionaceae. From Greek, "bladder stigma" ..."
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