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Definition of Orange hawkweed
1. Noun. European hawkweed having flower heads with bright orange-red rays; a troublesome weed especially as naturalized in northeastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Hieracium.
Group relationships: Genus Pilosella, Pilosella
Generic synonyms: Weed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orange Hawkweed
Literary usage of Orange hawkweed
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 (1903)
"The orange hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum) is a plant not easily overlooked ...
Although it landed in America as the orange hawkweed, its noxious qualities ..."
2. Public School Methods (1921)
"A plant can not live unless it can produce leaves and stems, as the green parts
above ground manufacture food which supports the plant. "orange hawkweed. ..."
3. Farm and Garden Rule-book: A Manual of Ready Rules and Reference with by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1911)
"orange hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum), chickweed (Stellaria media), and some
other of the shallow-rooted succulent weeds of lawns and grass lands can be ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"A number are natives of Britain, and some of them are 370 very common plants.
The flowers are generally yellow, but the orange hawkweed (H. ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"A number are natives of Britain, and some of them are very common plants.
The flowers are generally yellow, but the orange hawkweed (H. ..."
6. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"XJ. , . -, /^,. „„„ x tawny bristles. (Fig. 383.) Means of control the same as
for orange hawkweed. orange hawkweed Hieracium ..."
7. Farm Friends and Farm Foes: A Text-book of Agricultural Science by Clarence Moores Weed (1910)
"The orange hawkweed is another dangerous weed of this family introduced from ...
The orange hawkweed is most likely to appear in pastures or meadow lands, ..."
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