Easter daisy

Easter daisy
noun
dwarf tufted nearly stemless herb having a rosette of woolly leaves and large white-rayed flower heads and bristly achenes; central Canada and United States west to Arizona
Hypernyms: ↑flower
Member Holonyms: ↑Townsendia, ↑genus Townsendia

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noun
Usage: usually capitalized E
: a low-growing ash-gray perennial herb (Townsendia exscapa) of western No. America with linear or linear-oblanceolate leaves arranged in a rosette and sessile white flower heads that appear at about Easter season

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a nearly stemless composite plant, Townsendia exscapa, of the Rocky Mountain regions, having stalkless purplish or white flowers in a rosette of narrow leaves.
[so called because its flowers appear at Easter time]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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