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n. - European perennial branching plant.

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  • He had found his creeping gromwell, and he had found the place where Huon de Domville had spent the last night of his life.
  • Now what, he wondered, viewing its very late and now somewhat jaded flowers, is a bunch of the blue creeping gromwell doing in these parts?
  • Father, "Cadfael pursued, while he had every man's attention," that I showed you the blue flowers of the gromwell he wore in his cap when he was found.
  • Medicinal plants total 462 species and include multiflower knotweed, Taishan ginseng, Chinese gromwell and sealwort, which are renowned throughout the country.
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