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Definition of Ground pink
1. Noun. Low wiry-stemmed branching herb or southern California having fringed pink flowers.
Generic synonyms: Phlox
Group relationships: Genus Linanthus, Linanthus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ground Pink
Literary usage of Ground pink
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Springtime Flowers: Easy Lessons in Botany by Mae Ruth Norcross (1900)
"ground pink RAM's HEAD BLUETS /^\NE day the children made an excursion to the
hill where they had first found the arbutus, and this time they brought home a ..."
2. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1908)
"The ground-pink blooms nowadays as cheerily as of old, but is restricted to
outlying districts, pasture acres and roadsides—the same winsome little bloom, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1909)
"Dr. Benjamin Smith Barton, in his Collections for an Essay towards a Materia
Medica of the United States, says: "The Silene virginica, or ground pink, ..."
4. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum by Montague Rhodes James (1895)
"Ground, pink with gold suns. 34. Geneviève, palm and candle, angel with sword,
and black devil with bellows. 3J. Elizabeth reading, old, white headdress, ..."
5. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons (1895)
"... we find the small clustered pink flowers, which open transiently in the
sunshine, of the sleepy catchfly, S. antirrhina. MOSS PINK.* ground pink. ..."
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