DOTTED GAYFEATHER

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Meaning:

Herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico

Synonyms:

dotted gayfeather; Liatris punctata

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("dotted gayfeather" is a kind of...):

blazing star; button snakeroot; gay-feather; gayfeather; snakeroot (any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads)

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