dwarf ginseng

noun

1. a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.

Example Sentences

Some early plants which have now almost disappeared from Eastern Massachusetts are still found near Worcester in the greatest abundance,—as the larger Yellow Violet, the Red Trillium, the Dwarf Ginseng, the Clintonia or Wild Lily-of-the-Valley, and the pretty fringed Polygala, which Miss Cooper christened "Gay-Wings."

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