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WILD FLOWER

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Meaning:

Wild or uncultivated flowering plant

Synonyms:

wild flower; wildflower

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("wild flower" is a kind of...):

wilding (a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree))

angiosperm; flowering plant (plants having seeds in a closed ovary)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild flower"):

false miterwort; false mitrewort; Tiarella unifoliata (plant with tiny white flowers hanging in loose clusters on leafy stems; moist woods from Alaska to central California and east to Montana)

false alumroot; fringe cups; Tellima grandiflora (plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-colored or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho)

fringed grass of Parnassus; Parnassia fimbriata (bog plant with broadly heart-shaped basal leaves and cream-colored or white saucer-shaped flowers with fringed petals; west of Rocky Mountains from Alaska to New Mexico)

Lithophragma parviflorum; prairie star (plant with mostly basal leaves and slender open racemes of white or pale pink flowers; prairies and open forest of northwestern United States to British Columbia and Alberta)

leatherleaf saxifrage; Leptarrhena pyrolifolia (plant with basal leathery elliptic leaves and erect leafless flower stalks each bearing a dense roundish cluster of tiny white flowers; moist places of northwestern North America to Oregon and Idaho)

Boykinia elata; Boykinia occidentalis; coast boykinia (plant with leaves mostly at the base and openly branched clusters of small white flowers; western North America)

bluebell; Eustoma grandiflorum; prairie gentian; tulip gentian (one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas)

Sarcodes sanguinea; snow plant (a fleshy bright red saprophytic plant of the mountains of western North America that appears in early spring while snow is on the ground)

false beachdrops; Monotropa hypopithys; pinesap (fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America; in some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitys)

Indian pipe; Monotropa uniflora; waxflower (small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with age)

white-rayed mule's ears; Wyethia helianthoides (herb with basal leaves and leafy hairy stems bearing solitary flower heads with white or pale cream-colored rays; northwestern United States)

mule's ears; Wyethia amplexicaulis (balsamic-resinous herb with clumps of lanceolate leaves and stout leafy stems ending in large deep yellow flowers on long stalks; northwestern United States)

goatsbeard; meadow salsify; shepherd's clock; Tragopogon pratensis (weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States)

Tragopogon dubius; yellow salsify (European perennial naturalized throughout United States having hollow stems with a few long narrow tapered leaves and each bearing a solitary pale yellow flower)

alpine sunflower; Hymenoxys grandiflora; old man of the mountain; Tetraneuris grandiflora (whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems each bearing an especially handsome solitary large yellow flower head; mountainous regions north central United States)

Hymenoxys acaulis; stemless hymenoxys; Tetraneuris acaulis (perennial having tufted basal leaves and short leafless stalks each bearing a solitary yellow flower head; dry hillsides and plains of west central North America)

northern dune tansy; Tanacetum douglasii (lightly hairy rhizomatous perennial having aromatic feathery leaves and stems bearing open clusters of small buttonlike yellow flowers; sand dunes of Pacific coast of North America)

Haplopappus acaulis; stemless golden weed; Stenotus acaulis (dark green erect herb of northwestern United States and southwestern Canada having stiff leaves in dense tufts and yellow flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Haplopappus)

goldenrod (any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago)

arrowleaf groundsel; Senecio triangularis (perennial with sharply toothed triangular leaves on leafy stems bearing a cluster of yellow flower heads; moist places in mountains of western North America)

Daucus carota; Queen Anne's lace; wild carrot (a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots)

Penstemon whippleanus; Whipple's penstemon (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)

cascade penstemon; Penstemon serrulatus (whorls of deep blue to dark purple flowers at tips of erect leafy stems; moist places from British Columbia to Oregon)

Penstemon rydbergii; Rydberg's penstemon (plant with whorls of small dark blue-violet flowers; Washington to Wyoming and south to California and Colorado)

cliff penstemon; Penstemon rupicola; rock penstemon (one of the West's most beautiful wildflowers; large brilliant pink or rose flowers in many racemes above thick mats of stems and leaves; ledges and cliffs from Washington to California)

Parry's penstemon; Penstemon parryi (erect stems with pinkish-lavender flowers in long interrupted clusters; Arizona)

balloon flower; Penstemon palmeri; scented penstemon (fragrant puffed-up white to reddish-pink flowers in long narrow clusters on erect stems; Arizona to New Mexico and Utah)

mountain pride; Penstemon newberryi (mat-forming plant with deep pink flowers on short erect leafy stems; rocky places at high elevations from Oregon to California)

narrow-leaf penstemon; Penstemon linarioides (plant having small narrow leaves and blue-violet flowers in long open clusters; Utah and Colorado to New Mexico and Arizona)

lowbush penstemon; Penstemon fruticosus; shrubby penstemon (low bushy plant with large showy pale lavender or blue-violet flowers in narrow clusters at ends of stems)

Jones' penstemon; Penstemon dolius (low plant with light blue and violet flowers in short clusters near tips of stems; Nevada to Utah)

hot-rock penstemon; Penstemon deustus (stems in clumps with cream-colored flowers; found from Washington to Wyoming and southward to California and Utah)

Davidson's penstemon; Penstemon davidsonii (mat-forming plant with blue and lavender flowers clustered on short erect stems; British Columbia to northern California)

Penstemon cyananthus; Platte River penstemon (erect plant with blue-violet flowers in rings near tips of stems; Idaho to Utah and Wyoming)

Penstemon centranthifolius; scarlet bugler (plant with bright red tubular flowers in long narrow clusters near tips of erect stems; coastal ranges from central California southward)

golden-beard penstemon; Penstemon barbatus (plant of southwestern United States having long open clusters of scarlet flowers with yellow hairs on lower lip)

blue-eyed Mary; Collinsia verna (eastern United States plant with whorls of blue-and-white flowers)

Collinsia parviflora; maiden blue-eyed Mary (small widely branching western plant with tiny blue-and-white flowers; British Columbia to Ontario and south to California and Colorado)

Collinsia bicolor; Collinsia heterophylla; innocense; purple chinese houses (white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California)

Indian paintbrush; painted cup (any of various plants of the genus Castilleja having dense spikes of hooded flowers with brightly colored bracts)

kitten-tails (a plant of the genus Besseya having fluffy spikes of flowers)

fleabane (any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas)

engelmannia (common erect hairy perennial of plains and prairies of southern and central United States having flowers that resemble sunflowers)

Enceliopsis nudicaulis; sunray (herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizona)

brittle bush; brittlebush; Encelia farinosa; incienso (fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine)

hawk's-beard; hawk's-beards (any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem; northern hemisphere)

golden aster (any of several shrubby herbs or subshrubs of the genus Chrysopsis having bright golden-yellow flower heads that resemble asters; throughout much of United States and into Canada)

oxeye (Eurasian perennial herbs having daisylike flowers with yellow rays and dark centers)

false chamomile (any of various autumn-flowering perennials having white or pink to purple flowers that resemble asters; wild in moist soils from New Jersey to Florida and Texas)

Arnica montana (herb of pasture and open woodland throughout most of Europe and western Asia having orange-yellow daisylike flower heads that when dried are used as a stimulant and to treat bruises and swellings)

Arnica cordifolia; heartleaf arnica (wildflower with heart-shaped leaves and broad yellow flower heads; of alpine areas west of the Rockies from Alaska to southern California)

Antheropeas wallacei; dwarf daisy; Eriophyllum wallacei; woolly daisy (tiny grey woolly tufted annual with small golden-yellow flower heads; southeastern California to northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah; sometimes placed in genus Eriophyllum)

flame-flower; flame flower; flameflower; Talinum aurantiacum (plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots)

Calyptridium umbellatum; pussy's-paw; pussy-paw; pussy-paws; Spraguea umbellatum (pink clusters of densely packed flowers on prostrate stems resemble upturned pads of cats' feet; grow in coniferous forests of western North America)

bitterroot; Lewisia rediviva (showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower)

Lewisia cotyledon; siskiyou lewisia (evergreen perennial having a dense basal rosette of long spatula-shaped leaves and panicles of pink or white-and-red-striped or pink-purple flowers; found on cliffs and in rock crevices in mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California)

Calandrinia ciliata; red maids; redmaids (succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers; southwestern United States)

Allionia incarnata; trailing four o'clock; trailing windmills (trailing plant having crowded clusters of 3 brilliant deep pink flowers resembling a single flower blooming near the ground; found in dry gravelly or sandy soil; southwestern United States and Mexico)

sand verbena (any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena)

meadow rue (any of various herbs of the genus Thalictrum; sometimes rhizomatous or tuberous perennials found in damp shady places and meadows or stream banks; have lacy foliage and clouds of small purple or yellow flowers)

pasque flower; pasqueflower (any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone)

Ranunculus glaberrimus; sagebrush buttercup (small early-flowering buttercup with shiny yellow flowers of western North America)

butterweed; ragwort; Senecio glabellus (American ragwort with yellow flowers)

nodding groundsel; Senecio bigelovii (plant with erect leafy stems bearing clusters of rayless yellow flower heads on bent individual stalks; moist regions of southwestern United States)

coneflower (a wildflower of the genus Ratibida)

blackfoot daisy; Melampodium leucanthum (bushy subshrub having flower heads that resemble asters with broad white rays; found in desert areas of Arizona east to Kansas and south to Mexico)

common madia; common tarweed; Madia elegans (California annual having red-brown spots near the base of its yellow flower rays)

Machaeranthera tortifoloia; Mojave aster (wild aster having greyish leafy stems and flower heads with narrow pale lavender or violet rays; of rocky desert slopes California to Arizona and Utah)

Machaeranthera bigelovii; sticky aster (wild aster having leafy stems and flower heads with narrow bright reddish-lavender or purple rays; western Colorado to Arizona)

Machaeranthera tanacetifolia; tahoka daisy; tansy leaf aster (wild aster with fernlike leaves and flower heads with very narrow bright purple rays; Alberta to Texas and Mexico)

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)

Leucogenes leontopodium; north island edelweiss (perennial herb closely resembling European edelweiss; New Zealand)

edelweiss; Leontopodium alpinum (alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts)

hawkbit (any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon; of temperate Eurasia to Mediterranean regions)

goldfields; Lasthenia chrysostoma (small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated)

dwarf hulsea; Hulsea nana (similar to but smaller than alpine hulsea)

alpine gold; alpine hulsea; Hulsea algida (low tufted plant having hairy stems each topped by a flower head with short narrow yellow rays; northwestern United States)

Chrysopsis villosa; hairy golden aster; Heterotheca villosa; prairie golden aster (hairy perennial with yellow flower heads in branched clusters; found almost everywhere in dry places from Canada to west central and western United States; sometimes placed in genus Chrysopsis)

heliopsis; oxeye (any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers)

goldenbush (a plant of the genus Haplopappus)

desert sunflower; Gerea canescens (slender hairy plant with few leaves and golden-yellow flower heads; sandy desert areas of southeastern California to southwestern Utah and western Arizona and northwestern Mexico)

gaillardia (any plant of western America of the genus Gaillardia having hairy leaves and long-stalked flowers in hot vibrant colors from golden yellow and copper to rich burgundy)

woolly sunflower (any plant of the genus Eriophyllum)

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