NOUN
- any hardy bog orchid of the genus Pogonia: terrestrial orchids having slender rootstocks and erect stems bearing one or a few leaves and a solitary terminal flower
How To Use pogonia In A Sentence
- In Sapogonia, Ana Castillo explores the geographic and psychic borderlands between the United States and Mexico as internalized in a fantasy of the myth of the Conquistador and its potential violence to women.
- "Small Whorled-Big Mission" shows Marines training in woods populated with the small whorled pogonia.
- In the proposed Burke Branch Wilderness, for instance, visitors can discover six-foot-tall cinnamon ferns, the rare whorled pogonia, and the last known mesic barren in North America.
- I had returned to the old home during a summer vacation of the State University, and, having made a beginning in botany, I was, of course, full of enthusiasm and ran eagerly to my beloved pogonia, calopogon, and cypripedium gardens, osmunda ferneries, and the lake lilies and pitcher-plants. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
- Small whorled pogonia is currently designated as Threatened in its entire range.
- The rare silvery glade, the Virginia chain and 23 other ferns can be found here, as can rose pogonias, twig-rushes, buckbeans and pitcher plants.
- Edaphosaurus pogonias Cope; Clepsy drops natalis Cope; Naosaurus claviger Cope; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
- I had returned to the old home during a summer vacation of the State University, and, having made a beginning in botany, I was, of course, full of enthusiasm and ran eagerly to my beloved pogonia, calopogon, and cypripedium gardens, osmunda ferneries, and the lake lilies and pitcher-plants. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
- I had returned to the old home during a summer vacation of the State University, and, having made a beginning in botany, I was, of course, full of enthusiasm and ran eagerly to my beloved pogonia, calopogon, and cypripedium gardens, osmunda ferneries, and the lake lilies and pitcher-plants. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
- In the proposed Burke Branch Wilderness, for instance, visitors can discover six-foot-tall cinnamon ferns, the rare whorled pogonia, and the last known mesic barren in North America.
