shellflower

Meanings

• showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple
• cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes

Synonyms

• shell-flower
• turtlehead
• snakehead
• snake-head
• Chelone glabra
• shall-flower
• shell ginger
• Alpinia Zerumbet
• Alpinia speciosa
• Languas speciosa

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