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- noun A
flowering plant in thegenus Penstemon with a prominent, often hairy,staminode .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If she were seen holding a stem of beardtongue blossoms to admire their color or stooping to touch the spikes of jimson leaves, some would solemnly call her mazed in the head not to know beardtongue when she saw it, and others would wonder, grinning, was she so wit-scoured as perhaps to eat jimson?
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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If she were seen holding a stem of beardtongue blossoms to admire their color or stooping to touch the spikes of jimson leaves, some would solemnly call her mazed in the head not to know beardtongue when she saw it, and others would wonder, grinning, was she so wit-scoured as perhaps to eat jimson?
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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The Colorado wildflower, also known as the Parachute beardtongue, only grows on the oil shale outcrops within the Green River Formation in Garfield County, including private and federal lands of the Roan Plateau.
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Color for hot dry spots: yarrow; Shasta daisy; threadleaf coreopsis; dianthus; coneflowers; blanketflower; daylily; silver grass; switchgrass; fountain grass; beardtongue; salvia; Russian sage; sedum; rugosa rose; lilac; spirea; purple ninebark; sumac; barberry; bluebeard, or caryopteris; smokebush; hawthorn; ginkgo; and honey locust.
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"If she were seen holding a stem of beardtongue blossoms to admire their color or stooping to touch the spikes of jimson leaves, some would solemnly call her mazed in the head not to know beardtongue when she saw it, and others would wonder, grinning, was she so wit-scoured as perhaps to eat jimson?"
June 29, 2015