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Indian paint

noun

Perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment. Synonyms: hoary puccoon, Lithospermum canescens.

European annual with clusters of greenish flowers followed by red pulpy berrylike fruit; naturalized North America. Synonyms: Chenopodium capitatum, strawberry blite, strawberry pigweed.

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... in large patches, even on the mountain heights, where there is plenty of moisture and sunshine, and a species of marguerite, or mountain daisy, is not uncommon. The Indian paint-brush is found everywhere and is in full bloom in deepest red in September. Wild sunflowers also abound except where the sheep have been. Then not a sign of once vast patches can be found. They are eaten clear to ...

— The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James

Words linked to "Indian paint" : Lithospermum, genus Lithospermum, strawberry pigweed, Chenopodium capitatum, herb, goosefoot, herbaceous plant