gerardia

plural gerardias

1. countableuncountablebiologyAny of the genus Agalinis of flowering plants.

   Gerardia are typical bee flowers with bee guides, especially bumblebees.

   2005, James Howard Miller, Karl V. Miller, Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 8

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   It is a special pity to gather the gerardias, which, as they grow, seem to enjoy life to the full, and when picked, to be so miserable they turn black as they dry.

   1922, The New Nature Library, page 147

   Here the deep sands harbor xeric sandhill communities, which contain many wildflowers pictured in this book: sandhills milkweed, sandhills baptisia, sandy-field beaksedge, and gerardia, to name a few.

   2001, Richard Dwight Porcher, Douglas Alan Rayner, A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina, University of South Carolina, page 45

   Synonyms: false foxglove, agalinis