Definition of Shortia galacifolia

1. Noun. Plant of southeastern United States having solitary white funnel-shaped flowers flushed with pink and large glossy green leaves that turn bronze-red in fall.

Exact synonyms: Oconee Bells
Generic synonyms: Shortia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shortia Galacifolia

Shone's anomaly
Shone's complex
Shone's syndrome
Shoop
Shope fibroma
Shope fibroma virus
Shope papilloma
Shope papilloma virus
Shor
Shor's algorithm
Shore
Shorea
Shorea teysmanniana
Short's aster
Short-eared Dog
Shortia galacifolia (current term)
Shoshone
Shoshonean
Shoshonean language
Shoshones
Shoshoni
Shoshonian
Shoshonian language
Shostakovich
Shotokan
Shover
Show Me State
ShpII metalloprotease
ShpI metalloprotease
Shraddha

Literary usage of Shortia galacifolia

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)
"Shortia, like most plants considered rare, is really not BO rare as local, though the few stations where it is 3613. Shortia galacifolia. ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly (1887)
"Here it was that Robinia viscosa and Shortia galacifolia were first found—two plants which were for so long a time thought to be lost species. ..."

3. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by William Robinson, Esther Baldwin York (1903)
"... and Shortia galacifolia. The former were mostly N. elegans alba, of which alone some two dozen flowering examples were staged. It is a beautiful plant, ..."

4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1907)
"Shortia galacifolia Torr. & Gray, in Am. Journ. Sci. I. 42 : 48. 1842. The story of this species is given by CS Sargent, together with an illustration, ..."

5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"... flowers and round, Pyrola-like leaves. FIG. 181. Shortia galacifolia, for a long time considered one of the rarest North American plants. Original. ..."

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