American spikenard
noun
Definition of American spikenard
: spikenard 2a On the moss-covered boulder at the edge of the creek was a handsome American spikenard, a perennial that grows in similar habitats in the eastern United States. — Robert H. Mohlenbrock, Natural History, March 1989
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