basket flower

noun

1. a composite plant, Centaurea americana, of central U.S. to Mexico, having raylike heads of tubular rose-colored flowers, each surrounded by a whorl of bracts making the flower head appear as if it is set in a basket.

Example Sentences

He hung his lantern on the lowest bough of the yew-tree, and took from his basket flower- roots of several varieties.

From Project Gutenberg