sulphur-flower

sulphur-flower
/sul"feuhr flow'euhr/, n.
a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.

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