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Definition of Coneflowers
1. coneflower [n] - See also: coneflower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coneflowers
Literary usage of Coneflowers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings for the Eight Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by M. Boya Edwards (2001)
"Removal of overstory trees eliminates all overhead shading but may increase basal
sprouting of trees that will compete with coneflowers. ..."
2. Home Gardening: A Manual for the Amateur by William D. Drury (1898)
"E. purpurea and a variety with rather larger flowers may be included in any choice
list of perennials. They require to be treated like the coneflowers. ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"... or double flowers and yellow or brown disks. The best twelve species of
sunflower are native to the prairie. The coneflowers (comprising Rudbeckia and ..."
4. The State of Missouri: An Autobiography by Walter Williams (1904)
"As in many other parts of the country, the flowers of the woodland borders are
at this season largely composites, such as asters, goldenrods, coneflowers, ..."
5. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"... or sunflower herbs, as their name indicates, resemble sunflowers closely.
In the coneflowers the disk is hemispherical, conical or columnar in contour. ..."
6. The Centennial History of Illinois by Illinois Centennial Commission, Clarence Walworth Alvord (1920)
"Among the lower grasses flourished large areas of black-eyed Susans, purple
coneflowers, and bright bur marigolds. Many of the prairie flowers grew in ..."
7. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1908)
"... there are nine beds at present given over to these plants; the sunflowers,
coneflowers, thistles, asters, flea- banes, yarrows, golden-rods, ..."
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