California rose

noun

: a perennial bindweed cultivar (Calystegia hederacea synonym Convolvulus japonicus) of eastern Asia that is naturalized in the eastern United States and has sterile pink double flowers

Word History

Etymology

probably so called from a belief that it came from California

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