yellow puccoon

noun

1. a plant, Lithospermum incisum, of central and western North America, having numerous branches and fringed yellow flowers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yellow puccoon¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

On sandy knolls, where in early spring the anemone patens and crowfoot violets had thrived in profusion, were now to be seen the geum triflorum and the showy yellow puccoon; the long-flowered puccoon, with its delicate pale yellow, crape-like blossom, was just putting in an appearance; and little white, star-shaped flowers, which were strangers to us of Wisconsin, fairly dotted the green hillsides, mingled in striking contrast with dwarf blue mint.

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