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Indian paint   /ˈɪndiən peɪnt/   Listen
Indian paint

noun
1.
Perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment.  Synonyms: hoary puccoon, Lithospermum canescens.
2.
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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"Indian paint" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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

... full of flowers. There was rather less Indian paint-brush than on the east side of the park. We were too low for much bear-grass. But there were masses everywhere of June roses, true forget-me-nots, and larkspur. And everywhere in the burnt areas was the fireweed, ...
— Tenting To-night - A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the - Cascade Mountains • Mary Roberts Rinehart



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