Meaning | genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers. |
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Synonym | genus Lewisia |
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Member of | Portulacaceae, family Portulacaceae, purslane family | family of usually succulent herbs |
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Members | bitterroot, Lewisia rediviva | showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots |
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siskiyou lewisia, Lewisia cotyledon | evergreen perennial having a dense basal rosette of long spatula-shaped leaves and panicles of pink or white-and-red-striped or pink-purple flowers |
Broader | caryophylloid dicot genus | genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers |
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Spanish | genus lewisia, lewisia |
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Catalan | genus lewisia, lewisia |
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