shellflower

Noun
  1. Showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple (synset 112901865)
    is a type of: bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant - a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath
    belongs to: chelone, genus chelone - herbaceous perennials: shellflower
    same as: chelone glabra, shell-flower, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead
  2. Cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes (synset 112378002)
    is a type of: ginger - perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems
    belongs to: alpinia, genus alpinia, genus languas, genus zerumbet - perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes
    same as: alpinia speciosa, alpinia zerumbet, languas speciosa, shall-flower, shell ginger

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