'beefsteak plant' definitions:

Plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage [syn: beefsteak plant, Perilla frutescens crispa]

South American plant having green to purple or red branches with green to purple ornamental foliage and spikes of insignificant woolly flowers with dry membranous bracts [syn: beefsteak plant, beef plant, Iresine herbstii, Iresine reticulata]