NOUN | plant | elegant cat's ears, star tulip, Calochortus elegans | small plant with slender bent / bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears |
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Meaning | small plant with slender bent / bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears; southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon to Montana. | |
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Synonyms | star tulip, Calochortus elegans | |
Member of | Calochortus, genus Calochortus | large genus of western North American leafy-stemmed bulbous herbs |
Broader | mariposa, mariposa tulip, mariposa lily | Any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals |
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