"obedient plant" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: obedient plants [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} obedient plant (plural obedient plants)
  1. A flowering plant in the mint family, Physostegia virginiana, native to eastern North America and known for the way that individual flowers stay in the position they're moved to when pushed to one side or the other. Categories (lifeform): Lamioideae subfamily plants

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