Flower-of-an-hour (Noun)
Meaning
Annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The gardener made a mental note to pull up the invasive flower-of-an-hour sprouts from her carefully tended garden bed before they went to seed.
- While out for a walk in late summer, a splash of bright yellow from the weeds along the path caught my eye, a tiny flower-of-an-hour was in bloom.
- Naturalists who wander the urban areas and gardens may discover such delicate wonders as flower-of-an-hour plants dotting sidewalks and overgrown corners.
- Children played freely among tall blades of grass speckled with randomly occurring specimens of the modest but picturesque flower-of-an-hour in late August afternoons.
- Since their annual bloom lasts such a brief span of time and coincides so rarely with observational activities in my otherwise verdant district I know hardly more than passing remarks regarding local blooms like that species informally labeled 'flower-of-an-hour.'