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Noun: alpine sunflower
  1. Whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems each bearing an especially handsome solitary large yellow flower head; mountainous regions north central United States
    - old man of the mountain, Tetraneuris grandiflora, Hymenoxys grandiflora

Derived forms: alpine sunflowers

Type of: wild flower, wildflower

Part of: genus Tetraneuris, Tetraneuris

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