The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PHLOX
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result PHLOX
- Plant soundly identified by groups of sheep or birds
- While talking, gathers garden flowers
- One that’s planted in crowd’s picked up on the mike
- Flowers in bunches by the sound of it
- Flowers in clusters, say
- Flights picked up some flowering plants
- Flower bunches for recital
- Garden plants in clusters, from what we hear
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What does PHLOX mean?
PHLOX noun- Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox.