Crossword clues for coneflower
coneflower
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coneflower \Cone"flow`er\, n.
Any plant of the genus Rudbeckia; -- so called from the cone-shaped disk of the flower head. They are cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, the latter usually known as purple coneflower.
any of various perennials of eastern US having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several similar but unrelated flowering plants, of the genera (taxlink Dracopis genus noshow=1), ''Echinacea'', ''Rudbeckia'', and (taxlink Ratibida genus noshow=1), that have a cone-shaped disk of flowers.
WordNet
n. any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones
any of various perennials of the eastern United States having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center
Wikipedia
Coneflower is a common name of several genera of flowering plants:
In the family Asteraceae- Dracopis
- Echinacea
- Rudbeckia
- Ratibida
- Isopogon
Usage examples of "coneflower".
A flurry of colorful wings flashed over the welcoming bloom of purple coneflower, the sunny coreopsis, fragrant verbena, and the reliable asters.
I said, swiping the last of the coneflower ointment across the wound and reaching for a clean linen bandage.
While a batch of coneflower tea brewed, Cale took a small buckskin bag from inside his saddlebag and sprinkled a yellow powder over her body.
As she drew near the flower beds she spotted a few cheerful geraniums growing among the jungle of cosmos, purple coneflowers, and golden glows.
A light summer breeze had popped up, and a patch of yellow coneflowers bobbed their bright heads and brown eyes at him from the school garden.
Lucy Marks was snipping the heads off played-out coneflowers as her husband maneuvered the Kubota in and out of a shed.
The beaten-down stems of the daisies and the coneflowers seemed to rise slowly back toward the sky, to be prepared to be warmed by the sun that had I been drowned for so many days.
The sky was gray above but lightening over the pond, and as the sun slowly picked out the edges of the big mats of lavender along the stone porch foundation and the coneflowers trembling on their tall stalks behind them, another car drove in, and a woman got out.
Bria pointed to where the wild geraniums and coneflowers would have their home.
It was quiet in the store, the street outside empty of traffic, the late afternoon heat curling the leaves on the pink coneflowers lining her walk.
An endless vista of odd hump-shaped caprocks dotted with juniper and mesquite, here and there the blobby green lobes of distant prickly pear, a yellow sparkling of tall waving coneflowers.
The Troupe was cam~ west of El Reno on Interstate 40, an area of red cliifs of crumbling sandstone, red soil, creek bottoms full of pecans and as p ens and festooned with honeysuckle, a place of goldenrod and winecup and coneflowers and trailing purple legume.
Cosmos and coneflowers, dahlias and zinnias made a cheerful wave of mixed colors.