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scorpion weed - any plant of the genus Phacelia

flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms

genus Phacelia - American herbs with usually pinnatifid leaves and blue or purple or white flowers in scorpioid cymes

Phacelia campanularia, California bluebell - annual of southern California with intricately branched stems and lax cymes of aromatic deep blue bell-shaped flowers

California bluebell, Phacelia minor, Phacelia whitlavia, whitlavia - desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes

fiddleneck, Phacelia tanacetifolia - hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers

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