amsinckia

amsinckia
am·sinck·i·a (ăm-sĭngkʹē-ə) n.
An annual herb of the genus Amsinckia, native to southern California, with rough, bristly, pubescent herbage and large, coiled, yellow to orange flowers. Also called fiddleneck.
  [New Latin Amsinckia, genus name, after WilhelmAmsinck (died 1831), German botanist.]

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