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gay-feather

DEFINITIONS OF: gay-feather

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n any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads

Synonyms:
blazing star, button snakeroot, gayfeather, snakeroot
Types:
Liatris punctata, dotted gayfeather
herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico
Liatris pycnostachya, dense blazing star
perennial of southeastern and central United States having very dense spikes of purple flowers; often cultivated for cut flowers
Type of:
wild flower, wildflower
wild or uncultivated flowering plant
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