false foxglove

Questions about false foxglove

What does false foxglove mean?

false foxglove means "sparsely branched North American perennial with terminal racemes of bright yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for false foxglove?

Close synonyms include Aureolaria virginica, Gerardia virginica, Aureolaria pedicularia, Gerardia pedicularia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is false foxglove a common word?

false foxglove is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.