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fiddleneck

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fid·dle·neck  (fdl-nk)
n.
1. A hairy annual herb (Phacelia tanacetifolia) of California, having large pinnately divided leaves and bluish flowers.
2. See amsinckia.
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Noun1.fiddleneck - hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers
Phacelia tanacetifolia
phacelia, scorpion weed, scorpionweed - any plant of the genus Phacelia


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Poppies and other wildflowers - including fiddlenecks and filaree, usually the earliest of the valley's native flowers - are blooming at spots along the roads leading to the reserve.
PATCHY POPPIES POOR SEASON IS PREDICTED FOR A.V.'S SIGNATURE BLOOM by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Besides the poppies - which right now have the thickest blooms on south-facing slopes outside the reserve's boundaries - other wildflowers are blooming at the reserve and elsewhere around the valley: pygmy lupines, cream cups, redstem filaree and fiddlenecks.
RAIN SPROUTS DELUGE LEFT GOLDEN LEGACY; POPPY RESERVE WILL OPEN EARLY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
And other lupines in purples, reds and blues pepper fields of gold fiddlenecks.
RAINBOW OF WILDFLOWERS A ONCE-A-DECADE SHOW by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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