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Noun: desert plume
  1. Perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome
    - prince's-plume, Stanleya pinnata, Cleome pinnata

Derived forms: desert plumes

Type of: subshrub, suffrutex

Part of: genus Stanleya, Stanleya

Nearest

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