Lexic.us

Definition of Swamp azalea

1. Noun. Shrub growing in swamps throughout the eastern United States and having small white to pinkish flowers resembling honeysuckle.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swamp Azalea

Literary usage of Swamp azalea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1909)
"At the edge of the bog in the southwest and northwest angles occur clumps of the white swamp azalea. The stream issuing from Lost Pond is lined by thickets ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1884)
"The swamp magnolia, swamp willow, swamp azalea, the bald cypress, the swamp maple, the sweet gum—every swamp tree that can be named—do just as well, ..."

3. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"... the swamp azalea, and the superb flame-colored species of the Alleghanies, were sent early in the eighteenth century to the old country, ..."

4. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"swamp azalea; Swamp-honeysuckle Deciduous shrub Swamps, bogs and wet woods. Azalea viscosa L. P • Vaccinium angusti folium Ait. ..."

5. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"swamp azalea; Swamp-honeysuckle Deciduous shrub Swamps, bogs and wet woods. Azalea viscosa L. P • Vaccinium angustifolium Ait. ..."

6. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"Among our earliest exports, this hardy shrub, the swamp azalea, and the superb flame-colored species of the Alleghanies, were sent early in the eighteenth ..."

7. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"Among our earliest exports, this hardy shrub, the swamp azalea, and the superb flame-colored species of the Alleghanies, were sent early in the eighteenth ..."

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