bear's-breech

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bear's-breech

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bear's-breeches

n
(Plants) a widely cultivated S European acanthus plant, Acanthus mollis, having whitish purple-veined flowers
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Wants: passion vine, yellow hollyhock, bronze fennel, forest pansy redbud, coreopsis nana & zagreb, tamarix, bear's-breeches, bottlebrush buckeye, bugbane, crape myrtle, micanthus purpurascens, phlox, Darwin's choice, epemedium (red, pink, or orange)
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