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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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 John Muir
"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 Mary Hunter Austin
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 alpine spiræa grows here also and blossoms profusely with potentilla, erigeron, eriogonum, pentstemon, solidago, and an interesting species of onion, and four or five species of grasses and sedges.
From The Yosemite by John Muir
Beds of azure daisies smile confidingly in moist hollows, and along the banks of small rills, with several species of eriogonum, silky-leaved ivesia, pentstemon, orthocarpus, and patches of Primula suffruticosa, a beautiful shrubby species.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
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