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n. - Any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads.

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  • There were flowers of gayfeather to lift the spirits of beauty-starved women.
  • We prize gayfeather, purple coneflower, prairie larkspur.
  • The fieldwork involves pacing a pre-determined distance and counting the number of plants and flowers skippers use for food and for laying eggs, gayfeather and blue...
  • If you can find a stand of native gayfeather (Liatris) in bloom now, it likely will shimmer with butterfly wings of all Wildlife Service has ruled the Mountains...
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