desert sunflower

1. 1.

   slender hairy plant with few leaves and golden-yellow flower heads; sandy desert areas of southeastern California to southwestern Utah and western Arizona and northwestern Mexico

   SynonymsGerea canescens

   Broaderwildflower

   Part ofGerea

Questions about desert sunflower

What does desert sunflower mean?

desert sunflower means "slender hairy plant with few leaves and golden-yellow flower heads; sandy desert areas of southeastern California to southwestern Utah and western Arizona and northwestern Mexico".

What is another word for desert sunflower?

Close synonyms include Gerea canescens. 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 desert sunflower a common word?

desert sunflower 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.