Definition of Picris echioides

1. Noun. Widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States.

Exact synonyms: Bitterweed, Bristly Oxtongue, Bugloss, Oxtongue
Group relationships: Genus Picris, Picris
Generic synonyms: Weed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Picris Echioides

Pick cell
Pickering
Pickeringia
Pickeringia montana
Pickett
Pickett's charge
Pickford
Pico
Pico de Orizaba
Picoides
Picrasma
Picrasma excelsa
Picrasma excelsum
Picris
Picris echioides
Picrous Day
Pict
Pictionary
Pictish
Pictor
Picts
Picture Sorts
Picumnus
Picus viridis
Pidlimdi
Pidyon Haben
Piedmont
Piedmont glacier

Literary usage of Picris echioides

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"Variations of picris echioides: RE GATES. picris echioides is a European plant introduced into California. In a small colony of this composite at Berkeley ..."

2. A Flora of Shropshire by William Allport Leighton (1841)
"picris echioides, Linn. E. Bot. t. 972. E. Fl. v. Hi. p. 339. Borders of fields ; rare. Ft. June, July. '¡f.. Root tapering. Whole plant clothed with rigid ..."

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