fairy lantern
Noun
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Any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers (synset 112467024)
is a type of: liliaceous plant - plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tubersubtypes:
- calochortus albus, white fairy lantern, white globe lily - globe lily having open branched clusters of egg-shaped white flowers; southern California
- calochortus amabilis, golden fairy lantern, yellow globe lily - globe lily having open branched clusters of clear yellow egg-shaped flowers; northern California
- calochortus amoenus, rose globe lily - globe lily with deep rose-pink or purple egg-shaped flowers on flexuous stems; western slopes of Sierra Nevada in San Joaquin Valley
belongs to: calochortus, genus calochortus - large genus of western North American leafy-stemmed bulbous herbssame as: globe lily
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