purple chinese houses

purple chinese houses
noun
white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California
Hypernyms: ↑wildflower, ↑wild flower
Member Holonyms: ↑Collinsia, ↑genus Collinsia

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