appressed
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Bulb.—Conical; twelve to eighteen lines thick, with closely appressed scales.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Scales of the hemispherical involucre imbricated somewhat in 2 rows, appressed, with narrow membranaceous margins.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Well distinguished by its long or drooping racemes, and the closely appressed rigid scales of the involucre, small rays, etc.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Leaves simple, lance-linear, sharply serrate with appressed teeth; corymb loose; rays 8–12, much longer than the broader campanulate involucre; flowers white.—Mass.,
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Involucre club-shaped, yellowish; the rigid somewhat glutinous scales linear, closely imbricated and appressed.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
