plumose
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An upbeat grandmotherly woman with a plumose crown of lovely white hair, Sister Barbara calmly invited me to sit down across from her and asked me to tell her what had brought me there.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2011
Styles are free and long with plumose stigmas.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Flowers purple 8 Pappus of very plumose bristles.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Styles are distinct with plumose stigmas exserted laterally near the apex of the spikelet.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Achenes oblong, flattish, not ribbed; pappus of numerous bristles united into a ring at the base, plumose to the middle, deciduous.—Herbs, mostly biennial, with sessile alternate leaves, often pinnatifid, prickly.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
