sweet shaggytuft

English

Etymology

    Calque of taxonomic name Stenandrium dulce.

    Noun

    sweet shaggytuft (uncountable)

    1. (botany) A perennial plant with small lavender-colored flowers, native to the Americas, of species Stenandrium dulce.
      Synonym: pineland pinklet
      • 2023 April 5, Bijan Dehgan, Garden Plants Taxonomy: Volume 2: Angiosperms (Eudicots), Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 1059:
        Stenandrium amoenum, S. barbatum (early shaggytuft), and S. dulce (sweet shaggytuft) are dwarf tufted plants native to the Americas;  […]

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