lewisia : Idioms & Phrases


genus lewisia

  • noun genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers
    Lewisia.
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lewisia cotyledon

  • noun 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; found on cliffs and in rock crevices in mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California
    Lewisia cotyledon.
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lewisia rediviva

  • noun showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower
    bitterroot.
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siskiyou lewisia

  • noun 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; found on cliffs and in rock crevices in mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California
    Lewisia cotyledon.
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