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  • noun any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads

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Examples

  • There were flowers of gayfeather to lift the spirits of beauty-starved women.

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  • There were flowers of gayfeather to lift the spirits of beauty-starved women.

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  • We prize gayfeather, purple coneflower, prairie larkspur.

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  • We prize gayfeather, purple coneflower, prairie larkspur.

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  • If you can find a stand of native gayfeather (Liatris) in bloom now, it likely will shimmer with butterfly wings of all Wildlife Service has ruled the Mountains checkerspot butterfly does not warrant listing as an endangered species and protection of its habitat.

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  • The fieldwork involves pacing a pre-determined distance and counting the number of plants and flowers skippers use for food and for laying eggs, gayfeather and blue grama, and counting skippers he sees.

    Gazette.com : 2008

  • The fieldwork involves pacing a pre-determined distance and counting the number of plants and flowers skippers use for food and for laying eggs, gayfeather and blue grama, and counting skippers he sees.

    Gazette.com : 2008

  • The fieldwork involves pacing a pre-determined distance and counting the number of plants and flowers skippers use for food and for laying eggs, gayfeather and blue grama, and counting skippers he sees.

    Gazette.com : 2008

  • The fieldwork involves pacing a pre-determined distance and counting the number of plants and flowers skippers use for food and for laying eggs, gayfeather and blue grama, and counting skippers he sees.

    Gazette.com : 2008

  • The fieldwork involves pacing a pre-determined distance and counting the number of plants and flowers skippers use for food and for laying eggs, gayfeather and blue grama, and counting skippers he sees.

    Gazette.com : 2008

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