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Definition of Snow plant

1. Noun. A fleshy bright red saprophytic plant of the mountains of western North America that appears in early spring while snow is on the ground.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snow Plant

Literary usage of Snow plant

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

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"The snow-plant grows at an altitude of 4.000-9000 ft. It is the only species of the genus, and is not known to be in cult. Rhizome creeping, the 2-lvd. ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1902)
"THE snow plant OF THE SIERRA NEVADAS. Last July, while on a tour to the Yosemite Valley, I came across two or three specimens of the rare snow-plant of the ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1902)
"EL MORRIS, Western High School, Washington, DC THE snow plant OF THE SIERRA NEVADAS. Last July, while on a tour to the Yosemite Valley, I came across two or ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"The snow plant. Although the wierd but beautiful Indian pipe is known to almost every child who frequents the August woods, fewer people have seen its ..."

5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"2252), is the snow plant of the Sierra Nevadas. It is a low and fleshy plant growing .'!-12 in. high and entirely devoid of green leaves. ..."

6. The Old Schoolhouse and Other Poems and Conceits in Verse by Thomas Stewart Denison (1902)
"THE snow plant. snow plant by the mountain trail, Ruddy flesh of warmest glow, Curious were your simple tale, Told of life beneath the snow. ..."

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