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 shell-pink shading and crinkled yellow lip with variegated magenta stripes

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n. 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 [syn: shell-flower , turtlehead , snakehead , snake-head , Chelone glabra ...

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Shellflower may refer to: Any of several plants in the Alpinia genus; e.g. Alpinia nutans , and Alpinia zerumbet Any of several plants in the Chelone genus, e.g. Chelone glabra Any of several plants in the Moluccella genus, specially Moluccella laevis Any ...

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Chelone \Che*lo"ne\, n. [Gr. chelw`nh a tortoise. So named from shape of the upper lip of the corolla.] (Bot.) A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariace[ae] , natives of North America; -- called also snakehead , turtlehead ...