NOUN | plant | Clintonia uniflora, queen's cup, bride's bonnet | plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks |
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Meaning | plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks; Alaska to California and east to Oregon and Montana. | |
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Synonyms | queen's cup, bride's bonnet | |
Member of | genus Clintonia | sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae |
Broader | clintonia, Clinton's lily | Any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries |
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