pentstemon
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pentstemon
1750–60; < New Latin, equivalent to pent- pent- ( def. ) + Greek stḗmōn warp, thread
Example Sentences
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"It seems I am to have a meadow of my own," said the glacier, by the time there was stone-crop and purple pentstemon blowing in the damp crevices about its border.
From The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Austin, Mary Hunter
Would Olivia ever love any flowers quite as she had loved those first seedlings, especially a certain pentstemon, which 221 blossomed “white with purple spots,” exactly as the seed-catalogue had promised?
From A Bookful of Girls by Fuller, Anna
An abundance of wild flowers, varying in color with the growing season, include principally the Mariposa lily, Indian paint brush, pentstemon, lupine, wild sweet pea, and a great variety of the compositae family.
From Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by United States. Dept. of the Interior
The showy flowers are mostly three species of gentian, a purple and yellow orthocarpus, a golden-rod or two, a small blue pentstemon almost like a gentian, potentilla, ivesia, pedicularis, white violet, kalmia, and bryanthus.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by Muir, John
Conspicuous and characteristic flowers of the lower altitudes are the mariposa lily, iris, wallflower, gaillardia, and numerous species of cinquefoil, pentstemon, and evening primrose.
From Rocky Mountain [Colorado] National Park by United States. Dept. of the Interior
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