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Answer for the clue "1 species twinflower ", 7 letters:
linnaea

Word definitions for linnaea in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Linnaea is a plant genus which has often been classified in the family Caprifoliaceae (the Honeysuckle family) but may be more accurately considered to belong to its own family, Linnaeaceae. The genus includes a single, generally boreal to subarctic woodland ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Linnaea \Linnaea\ n. A genus with only one species, the twinflower. Syn: genus Linnaea .

Usage examples of linnaea.

It was a superb morning,--sky like an immense blue gentian, air full of fragrance from a million bells of pink Linnaea, sunshine flattering the great river,--a morning when danger and death seemed incredible.

He picked a few sprigs of late-blooming linnaea as we came out upon an open bit of pasture at the top of the island, and gave them to me without speaking, but he knew as well as I that one could not say half he wished about linnaea.