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Noun: wandflower
  1. A showy often-cultivated plant with tawny yellow often purple-spotted flowers
    "The wandflower added bright spots of colour to the spring garden";
    - Sparaxis tricolor
     
  2. Tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall
    "wandflower leaves are popular in floral arrangements for their colour-changing properties";
    - galax, galaxy, beetleweed, coltsfoot, Galax urceolata

Derived forms: wandflowers

Type of: flower, herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: genus Galax, genus Sparaxis, Sparaxis

Encyclopedia: Wandflower