calochortus nuttallii

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   perennial plant having clusters of one to four showy white bell-shaped flowers atop erect unbranched stems; edible bulbs useful in times of scarcity; eastern Montana and western North Dakota south to northern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico

   Synonymssego lily

   Broaderliliaceous plant

Questions about calochortus nuttallii

What does calochortus nuttallii mean?

calochortus nuttallii means "perennial plant having clusters of one to four showy white bell-shaped flowers atop erect unbranched stems; edible bulbs useful in times of scarcity; eastern Montana and western North Dakota south to northern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico".

What is another word for calochortus nuttallii?

Close synonyms include sego lily. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calochortus nuttallii a common word?

calochortus nuttallii is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.