desert plume

desert plume
noun
perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome
Hypernyms: ↑subshrub, ↑suffrutex
Member Holonyms: ↑Stanleya, ↑genus Stanleya

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noun
: a perennial herb (Stanleya pinnata) of the family Cruciferae of the southwestern United States with pinnatifid leaves, spirally coiled anthers, and long stalked seedpods — called also prince's-plume

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