Definition of Genus Prenanthes

1. Noun. Genus of North American and Asiatic perennial herbs having pinnatisect leaves small heads of drooping yellowish to purple flowers; sometimes includes species often placed in genus Nabalus.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Prenanthes

genus Porphyrio
genus Porphyrula
genus Portulaca
genus Portunus
genus Porzana
genus Potamogale
genus Potamogeton
genus Potamophis
genus Potentilla
genus Poterium
genus Pothos
genus Potorous
genus Potos
genus Pouteria
genus Praunus
genus Prenanthes (current term)
genus Presbytes
genus Priacanthus
genus Primula
genus Prinia
genus Priodontes
genus Prionace
genus Prionotus
genus Pristis
genus Pritzelago
genus Proboscidea
genus Procavia
genus Procellaria
genus Prociphilus
genus Procnias

Literary usage of Genus Prenanthes

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

1. The Paradisus Londinensis: Or Coloured Figures of Plants Cultivated in the ...by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker (1807)
"The genus Prenanthes was established by VAILLANT in the Memoirs of the French Academy for the year 1/21. LINNE, as appears both in the ..."

2. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"The genus Prenanthes is by no means an uncommon one in our woods, and most of the species flower in autumn. ..."

3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"Known by the general name of Rattlesnake-root or Drop-flower. The European and African genus Prenanthes L., is distinct from this. ..."

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