variants  
 or less commonly stokesia    
    
                                                        stō-ˈkē-zh(ē-)ə 
                                                    
        -zē-ə
            
                                
              
          
                                                      : a perennial composite herb (Stokesia laevis) of the southern U.S. often grown for its large showy heads of usually blue flowers                                      
                
                    
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