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has gloss | (noun) 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 fringed grass of Parnassus, Parnassia fimbriata |
has gloss | eng: Parnassia fimbriata is a species of flowering plant in the small plant family Parnassiaceae known by the common name fringed Grass of Parnassus. It is native to western North America from Alaska and northwestern Canada to the southern Rocky Mountains, where it is a plant of alpine and subalpine environments. It is a perennial herb producing an erect flowering stem from a patch of basal leaves. The leaf has a rounded blade at the end of a long petiole, the leaf reaching a total of up to 16 centimeters long. The inflorescence may be up to 40 centimeters tall and consists of a mostly naked peduncle with one clasping bract midway up. The single flower has five small jagged sepals behind five veined, fringed white petals each roughly a centimeter long. At the center of the flower are five stamens and five staminodes with edges of many narrow, round-tipped lobes. |
lexicalization | eng: fringed grass of Parnassus |
lexicalization | eng: Parnassia fimbriata |
subclass of | (noun) wild or uncultivated flowering plant wildflower, wild flower |
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member of | (noun) genus of bog herbs of Arctic and northern temperate regions genus Parnassia |
similar | e/Parnassia fimbriata |
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