hedgehog plant
English
Noun
hedgehog plant (plural hedgehog plants)
- The spiny evergreen flowering plant Erinacea anthyllis.
- 1993, The Horticulturist (volume 2, page 138)
- Next time at Kew, look in the rock garden at the hedgehog plant, Erinacea anthyllis, with its mauve flowers.
- 1993, The Horticulturist (volume 2, page 138)
- A species of medick, having the pods spirally twisted and rolled up into a spiny ball.