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Definition of Rocky mountain bee plant
1. Noun. Plant of western North America having trifoliate leaves and white or pink spider-shaped flowers; sometimes used as an ornamental.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rocky Mountain Bee Plant
Literary usage of Rocky mountain bee plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"ROCKY MOUNTAIN BEE-PLANT.—From New Mexico to Montana; also eastward to Missouri.
3. Cleome lútea Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 70. 1830. Glabrous and more or less ..."
2. Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians by Wilfred William Robbins, John Peabody Harrington, Barbara W. Freire-Marreco (1916)
"Rocky Mountain bee plant. also given him in water to drink. ... Rocky Mountain
Bee Plant, Guaco. New Mexican Spanish guaco. (See fig. 4. ..."
3. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society, British Soviet Friendship Society (1922)
"DOCTOR MERRILL: Rocky Mountain bee plant is the only name that I know. When we
were coming back from Colorado we stopped at Rocky Ford and bought some ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Pink cleome or Rocky Mountain bee plant (C. serrulata) has a stem from two to
three feet in height, the pinkish-white flowers very showy and attractive. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Pink cleome or Rocky Mountain bee plant (C. serrulata) has a stem from two to
three feet in height, the pinkish-white flowers very showy and attractive. ..."
6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"ROCKY MOUNTAIN BEE-PLANT. Glabrous, 2-3 or even 6 ft. high: Ifts. 3, lanceolate
to obovate-oblong, entire, or rarely with a few minute teeth: bracts much ..."
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