chaparral pea

chaparral pea

n (Plants) a thorny leguminous Californian shrub, Pickeringia montana, with reddish-purple showy flowers

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1.chaparral pea - spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of CaliforniaPickeringia montana, stingaree-bushgenus Pickeringia, Pickeringia - one species: chaparral peabush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems