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名詞

gerardia (countable and uncountable, plural gerardias)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Agalinis of flowering plants.

   Synonyms: false foxglove, agalinis

   • 1922, The New Nature Library, page 147:

     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.

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

     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.

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

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