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balloon flower

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balloon flower
n.
An east Asian perennial herb (Platycodon grandiflorus) having large, star-shaped, often violet-blue flowers and grown as an ornamental.
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Noun1.balloon flower - fragrant puffed-up white to reddish-pink flowers in long narrow clusters on erect stems; Arizona to New Mexico and Utah
Penstemon palmeri, scented penstemon
wild flower, wildflower - wild or uncultivated flowering plant
genus Penstemon, Penstemon - large genus of subshrubs or herbs having showy blue or purple or red or yellow or white flowers; mostly western North America


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Still another lobelia cousin is the balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus), a perennial whose silky mauve-blue flower buds look like expanding balloons as they enlarge.
IN THE GARDEN LOBELIA BRINGS PLENTY OF BLUE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Several of the photos depict endangered species, such as the yellow-lipped ladies' tresses orchid, and the northern harrier, but even more stunning is the close-up of a hover fly on a balloon flower.
Not just another calendar by Vogel, Jennifer / E
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