mentzelia

Then will stand revealed the "superb mentzelia," a true

A Bird-Lover in the West Olive Thorne Miller 1874

The mentzelia is of this nature; half a dozen stalks can with difficulty be separated; and they seem even to attract any light substance, like fringe or lace, holding so closely to it that they must be torn apart.

A Bird-Lover in the West Olive Thorne Miller 1874

There were masses of gillias, and of wonderful coreopsis, enormous cream-colored stars with deep-orange centres, and deep yellow ones with scarlet centres; thickets of snowy-cupped mentzelia and of wild rose; while here and there a tall red lily burned like a little lonely flame in the green, or regiments of convolvuli waved their stately heads.

Clover Susan Coolidge 1870