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desert plume

DEFINITIONS OF: desert plume

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n perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome

Synonyms:
Cleome pinnata, Stanleya pinnata, prince's-plume
Type of:
subshrub, suffrutex
low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base
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