Kidney Wort (Noun)
Meaning
Widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The kidney-wort grows in clusters and has a panicle that is a leafy crown of flowers at the top of a stem.
- The small white flowers of the kidney-wort bloom in late winter and are often seen as panicles made up of dozens of tiny florets.
- A kidney-wort in full bloom attracts numerous pollinators to the area with its hundreds of small flowers that are found within the panicle.
- Leafy panicles make the kidney-wort shrubs easy to spot even from a distance because they have clusters of tiny white flowers attached.
- Native to the southwestern United States, the kidney-wort grows in clusters that each produce the leafy panicles full of flowers.