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Trilisa

WordNet
  1. (n) Trilisa
    genus of herbs of southern United States
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) trilisa
    A genus of composite plants, of the tribe Eupatoriaceæ and subtribe Adenostyleæ. It is distinguished from the related genus Liatris by its broad corymbose panicle of small flower-heads, with their membranous involucral bracts forming only two or three rows and but slightly unequal. The 2 species are both natives of North America, growing in damp pine-barrens from Virginia south and west. They are erect perennials with alternate entire clasping leaves, those from the root very much elongated. T. (Liatris) odoratissima is known as wild vanilla (which see, under vanilla), and is also called deer's-tongue.