bitterroot (redirected from Bitterroot (botany))

bit·ter·root  (btr-rt, -rt)

n.

A perennial herb (Lewisia rediviva) native to western North America and having showy pink or whitish flowers and an edible fleshy root.

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bitterroot - showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower Lewisia rediviva wild flower, wildflower - wild or uncultivated flowering plant genus Lewisia, Lewisia - genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers