Of special interest are spp. of Himalayan origin such as milkwort (Lancea tibetica) and Kobresia moujr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khangai Mountains alpine meadow] Reference

On the road sides you see broom, heather, heath, harebells, along with gorse and bracken with milkwort nestling underneath: crested dog's tail and sheep's fescue are common grasses, while spurrey, knotwood, corn marigold, are a few of the numerous weeds in the arable fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons on Soil] Reference

This occurs in our common milkwort (Polygala vulgaris).    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

Or milkwort and sorrel, thyme, harebell and meadow-sweet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgian Poetry 1920-22] Reference

She picks the dark ears of the milkwort, and crane's-bill and lily of the valley, whose tiny white bells shed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Child Life In Town And Country 1909] Reference

The "Foxtail" milkwort, whose name I don't accept, C. 1006, is intermediate between this and the next species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

I should thankfully receive any notes from friends happy enough to live near milkwort banks, on the manner of its nativity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

And, turning on his face, he rested his chin on his hands, and stared at the short grass where the little blue milkwort was growing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Tales] Reference

It was purchased by the state in 1985 and is home to 14 rare or endangered plant species including spider milkweed, prairie false indigo and pink milkwort.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Clover-like heads of the milkwort decorate the bank, and among the mosses around the bases of the trees the little shin-leaf lifts its pretty white racemes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Summer Days in Iowa] Reference

Then at Poligny, the same afternoon, we gathered the first milkwort for that year; and on Tuesday, at St. Laurent, the wild lily of the valley; and on Wednesday, at Morez, gentians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

The cut rye, the coarse steppe grass, the milkwort, the wild hemp, all withered from the sultry heat, turned brown and half dead, now washed by the dew and caressed by the sun, revived, to fade again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop and Other Stories] Reference

I have said nothing of root, or fruit, or seed, having never had the hardness of heart to pull up a milkwort cluster -- nor the chance of watching one in seed: -- The pretty thing vanishes as it comes, like the blue sky of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

A stretch of grassy ground, which slopes down to the river's brink, is gemmed with the thick purple clusters of the milkwort, which shines among the grass as the early blossoms of the clover used to do when the summer was young.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Summer Days in Iowa] Reference

Characteristic herbs are the sweet-scented Viola patrinii, the slender milkwort; Polygala Abyssinica, a handsome pea, Vigna vexillata, a borage, Trichodesma Indicum, a balsam, Impatiens balsamina, familiar in English gardens, the beautiful delicate little blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir] Reference

The European varieties of the milkwort, except the chamæbuxus, are all minute, -- and, their ordinary epithets being at least inoffensive, I give them for reference till we find prettier ones; altering only the Calcarea, because we could not have a 'Chalk Juliet,' and two varieties of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

All along the road in a light wind you will get the scent of bed-straw and thyme and clover from the green border of the road, and in the short down grass find the plants that love chalk-ground, like the little blue milkwort, which spreads like a film over the higher slopes of the ridge in summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference

Communities on serpentine are particularly rich in endemic plants and invertebrates, including leather oak (Quercus durata), interior silktassel (Garrya condonii), milkwort streptanthus (Streptanthus polygaloides), and Muir’s hairstreak (Mitoura nelsoni muiri).    From Wordnik.com.  [California interior chaparral and woodlands] Reference

How Fergus divided his cares between the strata and Dolores 'kodak, how even his photography could not spoil Aunt Alda; how charming a group of sisters Dolores contrived to produce; how Adrian was the proud pioneer into a coach adorned with stalactites and antediluvian bones; how Anna collected milkwort and violets for Aunt Cherry; how a sly push sent little Joan in a headlong career down a slope that might have resulted in a terrible fall, but did only cause a tumble and great fright, and a severe reprimand from the elder sisters; how.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Broods] Reference

So long as I had crocus and daisy in the spring, roses in the summer, and hollyhocks and pinks in the autumn, I used to be myself independent of farther horticulture, -- and it is only now that I am old, and since pleasant travelling has become impossible to me, that I am thankful to have the white narcissus in my borders, instead of waiting to walk through the fragrance of the meadows of Clarens; and pleased to see the milkwort blue on my scythe-mown banks, since I cannot gather it any more on the rocks of the Vosges, or in the divine glens of Jura.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

Called 'small bitter milkwort' by S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

Field milkwort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

Fringed milkwort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

Close by would be a summer-house standing on four legs, a conservatory, a neglected kitchen garden, with flocks of sparrows hung on stakes, and a cat curled up on the tumble-down well; a little further, leafy apple-trees in the high grass, which is green below and grey above, straggling cherry-trees, pear-trees, on which there is never any fruit; then flower-beds, poppies, peonies, pansies, milkwort, 'maids in green,' bushes of Tartar honeysuckle, wild jasmine, lilac and acacia, with the continual hum of bees and wasps among their thick, fragrant, sticky branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Desperate Character and Other Stories] Reference

Close by would be a summer-house standing on four legs, a conservatory, a neglected kitchen garden, with flocks of sparrows hung on stakes, and a cat curled up on the tumble-down well; a little further, leafy apple-trees in the high grass, which is green below and grey above, straggling cherry-trees, pear-trees, on which there is never any fruit; then flower-beds, poppies, peonies, pansies, milkwort, ‘maids in green,’ bushes of Tartar honeysuckle, wild jasmine, lilac and acacia, with the continual hum of bees and wasps among their thick, fragrant, sticky branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Desperate Character] Reference