Its Flowers Lack Petals Crossword Clue

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	noun • any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves • marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton
	33%	7		Herbaceous plant whose flowers have no petals
	noun • any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes
	28%	9		From the Latin for “dove”, the flower, “granny’s bonnet”, with petals reminiscent of a flock of five doves, whose original Latin name, Aquilegia, alludes to its hook-like spurs, thought to resemble an eagle’s talons
	noun • a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains

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1	From the Latin for “dove”, the flower, “granny’s bonnet”, with petals reminiscent of a flock of five doves, whose original Latin name, Aquilegia, alludes to its hook-like spurs, thought to resemble an eagle’s talons Telegraph Giant General Knowledge - 23 Sep 2023	Telegraph Giant General Knowledge / 23 Sep 2023
2	Herbaceous plant whose flowers have no petals The Guardian Quick - 21 Aug 2007	The Guardian Quick / 21 Aug 2007
3	Its flowers are inconspicuous and lack petals, typically appearing as clusters of small greenish structures
4	Meaning “living flowers”, the Japanese art of floristry, also known as kadō, “way of flowers” Telegraph Giant General Knowledge - 29 Apr 2023	Telegraph Giant General Knowledge / 29 Apr 2023
5	Stupendous borders edged with flowers and yet more flowers The Guardian Quiptic - 24 Jul 2023	The Guardian Quiptic / 24 Jul 2023
6	The flowers in Amy Lowell's "Your great puffs of flowers / Are everywhere in this my New England" New York Times - 05 Jan 2023	New York Times / 05 Jan 2023
7	The flowers lack petals and instead have sepals that resemble petals

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