wild flower
English Thesaurus
1. wild or uncultivated flowering plant (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | wilding, |
| definition | : | a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree) (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | pasque flower, pasqueflower, |
| definition | : | any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | meadow rue, |
| definition | : | any of various herbs of the genus Thalictrum; sometimes rhizomatous or tuberous perennials found in damp shady places and meadows or stream banks; have lacy foliage and clouds of small purple or yellow flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | sand verbena, |
| definition | : | any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | allionia incarnata, trailing four o'clock, trailing windmills, |
| definition | : | trailing plant having crowded clusters of 3 brilliant deep pink flowers resembling a single flower blooming near the ground; found in dry gravelly or sandy soil; southwestern United States and Mexico (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | lewisia cotyledon, siskiyou lewisia, |
| definition | : | evergreen perennial having a dense basal rosette of long spatula-shaped leaves and panicles of pink or white-and-red-striped or pink-purple flowers; found on cliffs and in rock crevices in mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bitterroot, lewisia rediviva, |
| definition | : | showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower, talinum aurantiacum, |
| definition | : | plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | arnica cordifolia, heartleaf arnica, |
| definition | : | wildflower with heart-shaped leaves and broad yellow flower heads; of alpine areas west of the Rockies from Alaska to southern California (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | arnica montana, |
| definition | : | herb of pasture and open woodland throughout most of Europe and western Asia having orange-yellow daisylike flower heads that when dried are used as a stimulant and to treat bruises and swellings (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | false chamomile, |
| definition | : | any of various autumn-flowering perennials having white or pink to purple flowers that resemble asters; wild in moist soils from New Jersey to Florida and Texas (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | oxeye, |
| definition | : | Eurasian perennial herbs having daisylike flowers with yellow rays and dark centers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | golden aster, |
| definition | : | any of several shrubby herbs or subshrubs of the genus Chrysopsis having bright golden-yellow flower heads that resemble asters; throughout much of United States and into Canada (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hawk's-beard, hawk's-beards, |
| definition | : | any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem; northern hemisphere (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | brittle bush, brittlebush, encelia farinosa, incienso, |
| definition | : | fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | enceliopsis nudicaulis, sunray, |
| definition | : | herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizona (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | engelmannia, |
| definition | : | common erect hairy perennial of plains and prairies of southern and central United States having flowers that resemble sunflowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | fleabane, |
| definition | : | any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | woolly sunflower, |
| definition | : | any plant of the genus Eriophyllum (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | gaillardia, |
| definition | : | any plant of western America of the genus Gaillardia having hairy leaves and long-stalked flowers in hot vibrant colors from golden yellow and copper to rich burgundy (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | desert sunflower, gerea canescens, |
| definition | : | slender hairy plant with few leaves and golden-yellow flower heads; sandy desert areas of southeastern California to southwestern Utah and western Arizona and northwestern Mexico (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | goldenbush, |
| definition | : | a plant of the genus Haplopappus (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | heliopsis, oxeye, |
| definition | : | any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | alpine gold, alpine hulsea, hulsea algida, |
| definition | : | low tufted plant having hairy stems each topped by a flower head with short narrow yellow rays; northwestern United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | goldfields, lasthenia chrysostoma, |
| definition | : | small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hawkbit, |
| definition | : | any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon; of temperate Eurasia to Mediterranean regions (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | edelweiss, leontopodium alpinum, |
| definition | : | alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | machaeranthera bigelovii, sticky aster, |
| definition | : | wild aster having leafy stems and flower heads with narrow bright reddish-lavender or purple rays; western Colorado to Arizona (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | machaeranthera tortifoloia, mojave aster, |
| definition | : | wild aster having greyish leafy stems and flower heads with narrow pale lavender or violet rays; of rocky desert slopes California to Arizona and Utah (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | blackfoot daisy, melampodium leucanthum, |
| definition | : | bushy subshrub having flower heads that resemble asters with broad white rays; found in desert areas of Arizona east to Kansas and south to Mexico (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | coneflower, |
| definition | : | a wildflower of the genus Ratibida (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | nodding groundsel, senecio bigelovii, |
| definition | : | plant with erect leafy stems bearing clusters of rayless yellow flower heads on bent individual stalks; moist regions of southwestern United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | arrowleaf groundsel, senecio triangularis, |
| definition | : | perennial with sharply toothed triangular leaves on leafy stems bearing a cluster of yellow flower heads; moist places in mountains of western North America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | goldenrod, |
| definition | : | any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | northern dune tansy, tanacetum douglasii, |
| definition | : | lightly hairy rhizomatous perennial having aromatic feathery leaves and stems bearing open clusters of small buttonlike yellow flowers; sand dunes of Pacific coast of North America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | tragopogon dubius, yellow salsify, |
| definition | : | European perennial naturalized throughout United States having hollow stems with a few long narrow tapered leaves and each bearing a solitary pale yellow flower (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | mule's ears, wyethia amplexicaulis, |
| definition | : | balsamic-resinous herb with clumps of lanceolate leaves and stout leafy stems ending in large deep yellow flowers on long stalks; northwestern United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | white-rayed mule's ears, wyethia helianthoides, |
| definition | : | herb with basal leaves and leafy hairy stems bearing solitary flower heads with white or pale cream-colored rays; northwestern United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | indian pipe, monotropa uniflora, waxflower, |
| definition | : | small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with age (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | false beachdrops, monotropa hypopithys, pinesap, |
| definition | : | fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America; in some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitys (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | sarcodes sanguinea, snow plant, |
| definition | : | a fleshy bright red saprophytic plant of the mountains of western North America that appears in early spring while snow is on the ground (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bluebell, eustoma grandiflorum, prairie gentian, tulip gentian, |
| definition | : | one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | leatherleaf saxifrage, leptarrhena pyrolifolia, |
| definition | : | plant with basal leathery elliptic leaves and erect leafless flower stalks each bearing a dense roundish cluster of tiny white flowers; moist places of northwestern North America to Oregon and Idaho (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | lithophragma parviflorum, prairie star, |
| definition | : | plant with mostly basal leaves and slender open racemes of white or pale pink flowers; prairies and open forest of northwestern United States to British Columbia and Alberta (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | fringed grass of parnassus, parnassia fimbriata, |
| definition | : | bog plant with broadly heart-shaped basal leaves and cream-colored or white saucer-shaped flowers with fringed petals; west of Rocky Mountains from Alaska to New Mexico (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | false alumroot, fringe cups, tellima grandiflora, |
| definition | : | plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-colored or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | kitten-tails, |
| definition | : | a plant of the genus Besseya having fluffy spikes of flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | indian paintbrush, painted cup, |
| definition | : | any of various plants of the genus Castilleja having dense spikes of hooded flowers with brightly colored bracts (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | collinsia parviflora, maiden blue-eyed mary, |
| definition | : | small widely branching western plant with tiny blue-and-white flowers; British Columbia to Ontario and south to California and Colorado (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | penstemon centranthifolius, scarlet bugler, |
| definition | : | plant with bright red tubular flowers in long narrow clusters near tips of erect stems; coastal ranges from central California southward (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hot-rock penstemon, penstemon deustus, |
| definition | : | stems in clumps with cream-colored flowers; found from Washington to Wyoming and southward to California and Utah (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | jones' penstemon, penstemon dolius, |
| definition | : | low plant with light blue and violet flowers in short clusters near tips of stems; Nevada to Utah (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | mountain pride, penstemon newberryi, |
| definition | : | mat-forming plant with deep pink flowers on short erect leafy stems; rocky places at high elevations from Oregon to California (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cliff penstemon, penstemon rupicola, rock penstemon, |
| definition | : | one of the West's most beautiful wildflowers; large brilliant pink or rose flowers in many racemes above thick mats of stems and leaves; ledges and cliffs from Washington to California (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cascade penstemon, penstemon serrulatus, |
| definition | : | whorls of deep blue to dark purple flowers at tips of erect leafy stems; moist places from British Columbia to Oregon (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | penstemon whippleanus, whipple's penstemon, |
| definition | : | wine and lavender to purple and black flowers in several clusters on the upper half of leafy stems; Montana south through the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and New Mexico (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | daucus carota, queen anne's lace, wild carrot, |
| definition | : | a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots (noun.plant) |
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