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orange hawkweed

noun

  1. a European composite plant, Hieracium aurantiacum, having orange, dandelionlike flowers, growing as a weed, especially in eastern North America.


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Origin of orange hawkweed1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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But that was changing: He pointed to butter-and-eggs, oxeye daisies, bellflowers, tufted vetch, hemp nettle, spotted jewelweed, creeping Charlie, common tansy, orange hawkweed.

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Originally from Europe, orange hawkweed has spread across vast tracts of North America, from New York to Alaska, according to a 2010 paper by the U.S.

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In upland meadows the orange hawkweed is afoot, waving its delirious-colored “paint brush†wantonly amid the pasture grass in the light hours, but folding it at sunset, no sipper of the dews.

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The orange hawkweed is very fragrant, and its sweetness mixed with the spicy bitterness of the daisies.

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His daisies, his buttercups, his orange hawkweed, his yarrow, his meadow-rue, serve my purpose better than they do his.

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