genus lewisia

Noun
  1. Genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers (synset 111880450)
    is a type of: caryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
    member holonym:
    • lewisia cotyledon, siskiyou lewisia - 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
    • bitterroot, lewisia rediviva - showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower
    belongs to: family portulacaceae, portulacaceae, purslane family - family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas
    same as: lewisia

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