WHIPPLE'S PENSTEMON

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Wine and lavender to purple and black flowers in several clusters on the upper half of leafy stems; Montana south through the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and New Mexico

Synonyms:

Penstemon whippleanus; Whipple's penstemon

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Whipple's penstemon" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("Whipple's penstemon" is a member of...):

genus Penstemon; Penstemon (large genus of subshrubs or herbs having showy blue or purple or red or yellow or white flowers; mostly western North America)

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