PICKERINGIA MONTANA

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Meaning:

Spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California

Synonyms:

chaparral pea; Pickeringia montana; stingaree-bush

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pickeringia montana" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("Pickeringia montana" is a member of...):

genus Pickeringia; Pickeringia (one species: chaparral pea)

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