mountain daisy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mountain daisy
First recorded in 1855–60
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Who that has once read, can ever forget his harmonious and pathetic address to a mountain daisy on turning it up with the plough?
From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson
Know that blood has been as familiar to her as the dew to the mountain daisy.
From Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott
Growth of Appreciation of Nature.—More appreciation of nature followed the development of broader sympathy, Burns wrote a lyric full of feeling for a mountain daisy which his plow had turned beneath the furrow.
From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
It resembles the feathery, white mountain daisy, and grows in the same region; but its rays are wider and give the blossoms a somewhat more substantial look.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
The “gowan” is the mountain daisy of Scotland.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester
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