basket flower

noun

1

: an annual plant (Centaurea americana) of the southwestern U.S. often cultivated for its purple-rayed flower heads with involucres like baskets

2

: a spider lily (Hymenocallis calathina) having umbels of two to four flowers, each with linear perianth segments

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