the Painted Desert a desert area in Arizona in the southwestern US, east of the Little Colorado River. It is famous for the red, brown, and purple rock surfaces on the PLATEAU s (= large areas of flat land higher than the land around them) .
spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
perennial aromatic herb of southeastern Asia having large usually bright-coloured or blotched leaves and spikes of blue-violet flowers; sometimes placed in genus Solenostemon