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n. - North American annual widely cultivated for its yellow flowers with purple-red to brownish centers.

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  • Away at one end were the beds of old-fashioned flowers: hollyhocks and phlox and stocks, coreopsis and calliopsis, calendula and campanula, fox-gloves and monks-hoods...
  • And we had banks of calliopsis and sunflowers -- the small sunflowers of Kansas, that bloom a hundred or more to a stalk -- and tall phlox whose fragrance carries one...
  • Flowers we would have pretty much every-where -- hollyhocks in odd corners; delphinium and foxglove along the stone walls; bunches of calliopsis and bleeding-heart and...
  • There is nothing yet to take the place of the old-time groups, such as amaranths, zinnias, calendulas, daturas, balsams, annual pinks, candytufts, bachelor's buttons,...
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