An -flower is the shadow of the closure of an -braid .
C. Lamm and V. O. Manturov independently showed the following: Let be a knot and . Then has as its shadow for some . We show the following: Let be a knot and . Then has as its shadow for some . As a corollary, we show where is the left-right number of . This gives us a new definition of the bridge number of a knot.