starflower
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Any of various low-growing woodland perennial herbs of the genus Lysimachia (formerly Trientalis) in the primrose family (Primulaceae), native to northern temperate and boreal forests and bearing delicate, solitary white or pale pink blossoms with six or seven pointed, star-like petals above a single whorl of leaves.
"As we hiked through the shaded pine woods in late spring, we spotted delicate white starflowers blooming across the mossy forest floor."
Any of several other ornamental flowering plants noted for their radially symmetrical, six-pointed or five-pointed blossoms, especially spring starflower (Ipheion uniflorum) of the amaryllis family or borage (Borago officinalis), which produces bright blue star-shaped flowers.
"The gardener planted bulbs of pale blue spring starflower along the stone walkway for early seasonal color."
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