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adjective(of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex
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- tulip any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower
- snakehead showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple
- turtlehead showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple
- waratah tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes
- asplenium scolopendrium Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds
- horsemint tall erect perennial or annual having lanceolate leaves and heads of purple-spotted creamy flowers; many subspecies grown from eastern to southwestern United States and in Mexico
- olfersia cervina tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya
- marsh bellflower bellflower common in marshes of eastern North America having lanceolate linear leaves and small whitish flowers
- tagasaste shrub of Canary Islands having bristle-tipped oblanceolate leaves; used as cattle fodder
- rusty woodsia a common rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate regions having rusty-brown stipes and lanceolate pinnate fronds