Definition of Pickeringia

1. Noun. One species: chaparral pea.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickeringia

Picea rubens
Picea sitchensis
Pichileminian
Pichileminians
Pichilemo
Pichilemu
Pichilemu City
Picidae
Pick's atrophy
Pick's bodies
Pick's bundle
Pick's syndrome
Pick cell
Pickering
Pickeringia
Pickeringia montana
Pickett
Pickett's charge
Pickford
Pico
Pico de Orizaba
Picoides
Picrasma
Picrasma excelsa
Picrasma excelsum
Picris
Picris echioides
Picrous Day

Literary usage of Pickeringia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Some American Medical Botanists Commemorated in Our Botanical Nomenclature by Howard Atwood Kelly (1914)
"CHARLES PICKERING 1805-1878 pickeringia Montana*—NUTTALL Charles Pickering, known to the scientific world as an anthropologist and botanist, was of good New ..."

2. A Popular California Flora: Or, Manual of Botany for Beginners ... : to by Volney Rattan (1888)
"pickeringia is probably not found beyond the boundary of California. ... 1 Shrub; purple flowers pickeringia. 2 Leaves unequally pinnate; shrubby; ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Lvs. bright green, red or wine- colored when young, opposite: fr. black. E. Indies. AAA. Fls. purple or black-dolled. pickeringia, Torr. ..."

4. The Mountains of California by John Muir (1907)
"... and blooming shrubs from three to ten feet high ; manzanita and ceanothus of several species, mixed with rhamnus, cercis, pickeringia, cherry, ..."

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