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Definition of Rattlesnake weed
1. Noun. A hawkweed with a rosette of purple-veined basal leaves; Canada to northern Georgia and Kentucky.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattlesnake Weed
Literary usage of Rattlesnake weed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons, Marion Satterlee (1900)
"The loosely clustered yellow flower-heads of the rattlesnake- weed somewhat
resemble small dandelions. They abound in the pine-woods and dry, waste places ..."
2. Winston's Cumulative ... Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Bookby Charles Morris by Charles Morris (1918)
"... is an American species xylon, wood), occasionally used for dye- known by the
name of rattlesnake weed. ing. For E. сока see Coca. ..."
3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Rattlesnake-weed (Hieracium venosum). 1187. Lesson XXII. ... The rattlesnake-weed (Hieracium
venosum) is an example of another ..."
4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The rattlesnake-weed (Hieracium venosum) is an example of another type, with only
one kind of flo>ver in the head, the true ligulate flower. ..."
5. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The rattlesnake-weed (Hieracium venosum) i- an example of another type, with only
one kind of flower in the head, the true ligulate flower. ..."
6. Poets of the Younger Generation by William Archer (1902)
"The golden disks of the rattlesnake-weed. That spangle the woods and dance— No
gleam of gold that the twilights hold Is strong as their necromance : For ..."
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