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Definition of Rockrose family
1. Noun. Shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Cistus, Genus Cistus, Genus Helianthemum, Genus Hudsonia, Hudsonia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rockrose Family
Literary usage of Rockrose family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... rockrose family. Shrubby or low herbaceous plants, with regular flowers ; a
persistent calyx of 5 sepals, two of them exterior and resembling bracts ..."
2. Scientific and Applied Pharmacognosy for Students of Pharmacy, and by Henry Kraemer (1915)
"E, OR rockrose family. A family of low shrubs and herbs, of which there are about
150 species. They are found chiefly in the northern countries of both ..."
3. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... rockrose family. Shrubby or low herbaceous plants, with regular flowers; a
persistent calyx of 5 sepals, two of them exterior and resembling bracts; ..."
4. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"rockrose family. Cistaceae. Tufted shrubs and herbs, including Hudsonia with
alternating, fine leaves crowded on ascending branches. with tiny scalelike ..."
5. Nantucket Wild Flowers by Alice Owen Albertson (1921)
"E rockrose family Lechea minor, L. Greenish or magenta-tinted Thyme-leaved ...
Five other members of the rockrose family have been reported. ..."
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