Lexic.us

Definition of Tidy tips

1. Noun. California annual having flower heads with yellow rays tipped with white.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tidy Tips

Literary usage of Tidy tips

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

1. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"Among the most charming of our flowers are the beautiful tidy-tips. In midspring, countless millions of them lift themselves above the sheets of golden ..."

2. The Wild Flowers of California, Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1897)
"TIDY-TIPS. YELLOW DAISY. Layia platyglossa, Gray. Composite Family. Stems. ... Among the most charming of our flowers are the beautiful tidy-tips. ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"Along the bluffs of the river the beautiful tidy-tips (Laya platy- glossa), grew in scarce clusters; mingled with them their less favored composite friend ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"Along the bluffs of the river the beautiful tidy-tips (Laya platy- glossa), grew in scarce clusters; mingled with them their less favored composite friend ..."

5. California Plants in Their Homes: A Botanical Reader for Children by Alice Merritt Davidson (1898)
"Talk of advantages' of flowers in clusters and note that sunflower, thistle, tidy-tips, marguerite and the like, are flower clusters. FIELD WORK. ..."

6. Bergen's Botany: Key and Flora : Pacific Coast Ed. by Alice Eastwood, Joseph Young Bergen (1901)
"TIDY-TIPS. Loosely branching or often simple-stemmed, hairy, and glandular. Lower leaves pinnately lobed, with narrow divisions. Heads with large rays, ..."

7. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... Los Angeles, Bige- Tidy-tips. § 3. Pappus of subulate aums or of chaffy scales, either naked or margined with scanty long villous hairs at base, ..."

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