corymbose
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of corymbose
1765–75; < New Latin corymbōsus, equivalent to corymb ( us ) corymb + -ōsus -ose 1
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Scales well imbricated, coriaceous, with short herbaceous mostly obtuse spreading tips; pappus of rigid bristles; stem-leaves all sessile, none heart-shaped or clasping; heads few, or when several corymbose, large and showy.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
This is a robust species about a yard high, with large lanceolate leaves, and small, rosy-red flowers arranged in corymbose heads.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
Annual, twining or procumbent, low, roughish, the joints naked; leaves halberd-heart shaped, pointed; flowers in small interrupted corymbose racemes; outer calyx-lobes keeled; achene smoothish.—Cult. and waste grounds, common.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Achenes oblong, flattened, margined; pappus none.—Perennial herbs, with small corymbose heads.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The flowers are individually large and corymbose, and are succeeded by small green fruit.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
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