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LEWISIA COTYLEDON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Lewisia cotyledon; siskiyou lewisia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Lewisia cotyledon" is a kind of...):
wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)
Holonyms ("Lewisia cotyledon" is a member of...):
genus Lewisia; Lewisia (genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers)