helenium
Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Helenium, the dried leaves of which were once used to make a form of snuff.
Noun
- Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Helenium, the dried leaves of which were once used to make a form of snuff.
- Amongst the herbs to be administered when the charm was sung over him were a yew-berry, lupin, helenium, marsh mallow, dock elder, wormwood and strawberry leaves. - 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English...
- Heleniums mostly have an upright habit, though the taller ones may need staking in spring or cutting back by half in early summer to stay that way. - 2016, Nancy J. Ondra, The Perennial Matchmaker: Create Amazing...
Origin
From the genus name.