1. Evergreen perennial having a dense basal rosette of long spatula-shaped leaves and panicles of pink, white-and-red-striped or pink-purple flowers; found on cliffs and in rock crevices in mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California
   "Siskiyou lewisia thrived in the rocky crevices of the mountain slope"; "Lewisia cotyledon thrived in the rocky crevices of the mountain slope";
   - Lewisia cotyledon

1. Genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers
   - genus Lewisia

Type of: caryophylloid dicot genus, wild flower, wildflower

Part of: family Portulacaceae, Portulacaceae, purslane family

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