Lexicographical Neighbors of Pileworts
Literary usage of Pileworts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"In the United States several herbs of medicinal repute are called pileworts, such
as the Maryland figwort (Scrophularia mary- ..."
2. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"pileworts, turtle-heads and snapdragons. The figwort or pilewort is a tall herb,
often five or six feet high, with a large terminal panicle of small ..."
3. A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance by Samuel Carter Hall (1871)
"It is the vice of his intellect to be always upon the stretch and strain—to look
at pileworts and ..."
4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer (1880)
"The pileworts (Ficaria) were in full bloom, and the hedges were quite yellow with
their flowers. The pretty but small white flowers of the Strawberry-leaved ..."
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