Word: spiderwort
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...bittersweet nightshade, heal-all, true forget-me-not, blue vervain, spring larkspur, spiderwort, monkeyflower, dog violet, common butterwort, spurred butterfly, crown vetch, henbit, spotted Joe-Pye weed, gray beardtongue, spreading dogbane, live forever, steeplebush, crazyweed, woolly locoweed, hairy vetch, lady's thumb, common speedwell, field milkwort, Lyon's turtlehead, ragged robin, calypso, common burdock, spotted knapweed, hairy willow herb, purple saxifrage, red baneberry, slender glasswort, toadshade, climbing bittersweet, birdsfoot trefoil, moth mullein, smooth false foxglove, showy rattlebox, prince's plume, agrimony, squawroot, mouse-ear hawkweed, rattlesnake weed, coltsfoot, tickseed sunflower, Jerusalem artichoke, sneezeweed, swollen bladderwort, clammy ground cherry, purslane, muskflower...
...wild flowers with a captivating attention to detail; leaves have been munched by insects; petals show the wilt of age; and beneath the plant a tangle of roots seeks nourishment from the earth. True, they are not exact replicas of woodland plants, but neither are they prettified curios. Each spiderwort, evening primrose or wood lily is a stylized representation of growth and decay. The complexity of the design, Stankard says, must not be obvious. "It must reveal itself...
...natural sciences. A week before TEAM met in Menlo Park, summaries of 88 articles were distributed to the group's members. Subjects in last week's packet of clippings ranged from an Asia 2000 report on the impact of nuclear power plant radiation on the spiderwort plant, to a British magazine story that Lufthansa Airlines is now using trains instead of planes on some routes in West Germany...
...plant, a member of the spiderwort family, is "easy to grow and maintain," Frank Amodio, president of the Valley View Greenhouses in New York, said yesterday. Amadio assisted in testing the plant's ability to survive in various climates...
Surveyor's dramatic recovery overshadowed another space venture involving 1,000 vinegar gnats, 1,000 flour beetles, 560 wasps, 120 frog eggs, 875 amoebae, 13,000 bacteria cells, 78 wheat seedlings, nine pepper plants, 10 million spores of orange bread mold and 64 blue spiderwort. All this was packed aboard a space ark called Biosatellite 2 and launched into earth orbit from Cape Kennedy...
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