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blue curls

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blue·curls also blue curls  (blkûrlz)
pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
Any of several North American plants of the genus Trichostema in the mint family, having clusters of mostly bluish or purplish flowers with long curved stamens.
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Noun1.blue curlsblue curls - any of several plants of the genus Trichostema having whorls of small blue flowers
genus Trichostema, Trichostema - genus of North American aromatic herbs or subshrubs: blue curls
black sage, California romero, Trichostema lanatum, wooly blue curls - an aromatic plant with wooly leaves found in southern California and Mexico
camphorweed, Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed, vinegarweed - aromatic plant of western United States
bastard pennyroyal, Trichostema dichotomum - aromatic plant of the eastern United States
subshrub, suffrutex - low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base


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The most exotic-looking fragrant native is woolly blue curls (Trichostema lanatum).
It is nicely complemented in the landscape by woolly blue curls (Trichostema lanatum), a hydrophobic native with bluish-purple flowers.
Some of the showiest perennial natives are the yellow flowered California buckwheat, woolly blue curls, the Matilija poppy, Cleveland sage and Carpenteria.
 
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