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cottonweed

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Noun

any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers

an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts

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Synonyms:
pearly everlasting Anaphalis margaritacea

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cottonweed cottonwood
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froelichia genus froelichia cottonweed

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