plumose

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An upbeat grandmotherly woman with a plumose crown of lovely white hair, Sister Barbara calmly invited me to sit down across from her and asked me to tell her what had brought me there.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2011

Style jointed and bent in the middle, the upper joint plumose; flowers large; calyx erect or spreading; petals erect.

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 Gray, Asa

Flowers purple 8 Pappus of very plumose bristles.

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 Gray, Asa

Adiantum Farleyense.—This beautiful Maidenhair is supposed to be a subfertile, plumose form of A. tenerum, which much resembles it, especially in a young state.

From Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 by Various

Stamens and carpels numerous, styles becoming plumose or hairy tails, or naked and straight or jointed. b.

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 Gray, Asa