The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word PIMPERNEL
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PIMPERNEL
- Plant elm, pine, park oddly in a muddle
- Baroness’s flowery creation, much sought after in France
- Plant’s solicitor given fifty to entertain flighty type
- Bird after old pro’s boss left a flower
- Make Eagle look glitzy – Labour’s first flower
- Bird in a spot, having lost tail in plant
- Imperial eagle in Poland is poor man’s weather glass
- Flower worn by a colourful hero?
- Wise briefly to check repeated pressure in poor man’s barometer
- Most spot sea eagle inside low-growing plant
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The straight part
We know that "a flower" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case a flower = pimpernel.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PIMPERNEL mean?
PIMPERNEL noun- A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage, Pimpinella saxifraga.
- Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis.
- Sanguisorba spp.
- A yellow pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)
- Someone resembling the fictional Scarlet Pimpernel; a gallant dashing resourceful man given to remarkable feats of bravery and derring-do in liberating victims of tyranny and injustice.