blazing star

noun

any of certain plants with showy flower clusters, as Chamaelirium luteum, of the lily family, or the composite plant Liatris spicata.
a plant, Mentzelia laevicaulis, of the western U.S., having large, light-yellow flowers with many conspicuous stamens.

blazing star

a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum , with a long spike of small white flowers
any plant of the North American genus Liatris , having clusters of small red or purple flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)

So I left them, and this appearance passed for as real as the blazing star itself.

Summer had come in on a carpet of spring green strewn with wild clover, asters, and blazing-star.

The course of his mind was onward and upward like a blazing star, illuminating the horizon of his intellect as it rose.

In a delicately worded postscript was the sentence: "Blazing Star is well and will be glad to feel your weight again."

The noon train was sounding at the bend; from the ledge below them Blazing Star sent up a querulous whinny.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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