noun
dwarf tufted nearly stemless herb having a rosette of woolly leaves and large white-rayed flower heads and bristly achenes; central Canada and United States west to Arizona
• Syn: ↑stemless daisy, ↑Townsendia Exscapa
• Hypernyms: ↑flower
• Member Holonyms: ↑Townsendia, ↑genus Townsendia
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nounUsage: usually capitalized E
: a low-growing ash-gray perennial herb (Townsendia exscapa) of western No. America with linear or linear-oblanceolate leaves arranged in a rosette and sessile white flower heads that appear at about Easter season
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a nearly stemless composite plant, Townsendia exscapa, of the Rocky Mountain regions, having stalkless purplish or white flowers in a rosette of narrow leaves.
[so called because its flowers appear at Easter time]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.