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Definition of Spreading dogbane
1. Noun. North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymes; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spreading Dogbane
Literary usage of Spreading dogbane
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 (1895)
"... biennials as much injury may be done to a species by the picking of the
seed-yielding flower as by the uprooting of the plant itself. spreading dogbane ..."
2. The Mysteries of the Flowers by Herbert Waldron Faulkner (1917)
"... of the Milkweed family possess the mechanism described, including the gorgeous
butterfly-weed, shown in our coloured plate. spreading dogbane—Apocynum ..."
3. Outlines of Lessons in Botany: For the Use of Teachers, Or Mothers Studying by Jane Hancox Newell (1892)
"The spreading dogbane flowers in June and July, and is quite common on the edges
of thickets and along the roadsides. It is an herb, growing about two feet ..."
4. Outlines of Lessons in Botany: For the Use of Teachers, Or Mothers Studying by Jane Hancox Newell (1892)
"The spreading dogbane flowers in June and July, and is quite common on the edges
of thickets and along the roadsides. It is an herb, growing about two feet ..."
5. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"The small pink flowers of the spreading dogbane may be found all through the
summer, often upon our driest hillsides. The shapely little blossoms are of a ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"And there is the common spreading dogbane, to which science has given one of its
... Speaking of the spreading dogbane, a correspondent of the Torrey ..."
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