The farmer in this locality must have an alert eye for Canada thistles and oxeye daisy. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
A costly Diamond, that had once sparkled in a lady's ring, lay in a field amid tall grasses and oxeye daisies. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling] Reference
Glasswort, saltwort, salt grasses and oxeye are other salt-tolerant plants that exist in and around the marsh. From Wordnik.com. [Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, Georgia] Reference
A tuft of oxeye daisies in the shelter of a ruinous worm fence attracted him, and he reined the cob from the highway to fetch them. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Burbank spent seventeen years hybridizing the common oxeye daisy with the English daisy, the German daisy, and the small but brilliantly white Japanese daisy. From Wordnik.com. [Jane S. Smith: Daisies, Weddings, and Making the Ideal Real] Reference
The intertidal marsh in North Inlet is dominated by smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), while the high marsh community contains a mix of species, including smooth cordgrass, black needlerush, sea oxeye, salt grass, salt hay, salt marsh fimbristylis, glassworts, marsh elder and others. From Wordnik.com. [North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina] Reference
• Controlling oxeye daisy and scentless chamomile is relatively easy. From Wordnik.com. [The Vail Trail - All Sections] Reference
Aspen daisy is a good a native substitute for oxeye daisy in Vail Valley gardens. From Wordnik.com. [The Vail Trail - All Sections] Reference
The best-known Australian tarpon is Megalops cyprinoides, the 'oxeye herring' 'bony mullet' or 'Indo-Pacific tarpon'. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The best-known Australian tarpon is Megalops cyprinoides, the 'oxeye herring' 'bony mullet' or ‘Indo-Pacific tarpon'. From Wordnik.com. [UQ News Online] Reference
The third is addressed to the flowers, which, he said, especially the oxeye daisy, are very abundant on the top of the rock. From Wordnik.com. [English Traits (1856)] Reference
Dispersed logging debris also suppressed development of other invasive plant species, including oxeye daisy and velvet grass. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
This vigorous and floriferous perennial was the result of crossing cold-hardy English oxeye with a large-flowered Japanese species. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
If you want a daisy in your garden, good substitutes for the oxeye daisy are shasta daisies, blanket flowers or, better yet, native asters. From Wordnik.com. [The Vail Trail - All Sections] Reference
While this may look like a field of wildflowers in Vail's Matterhorn neighborhood, oxeye daisies drive out native species and reduce forage for wildlife. From Wordnik.com. [The Vail Trail - All Sections] Reference
I see in the fields and meadows the bird's foot trefoil, the oxeye daisy, the lady smocks, sweet hemlock, butterbur, the stitchwort, and the orchis, the "long purpled" of Shakespeare. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference
Next summer the prostrate straw of the preceding year was concealed by the young green wheat and barley that sprang up from the grain sown by dropping from the ears, and by quantities of docks, thistles, oxeye daisies, and similar plants. From Wordnik.com. [After London Or, Wild England] Reference
Timothy head and clover-bloom, oxeye and feathery plume-grass, they had bowed and swayed and shivered till the commotion, very conspicuous to one looking down upon the tranquil, flowery sea of green, caught the attention of the marsh-hawk, which at that moment chanced to be perching on a high fence stake. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life] Reference
The splendid wild swan wheeled and trumpeted in the clear autumn air; the wild geese flew there in their beautiful V-shaped flight; duck in all the varieties known to modern sportsmen -- canvas-back, mallard, widgeon, redhead, oxeye, dottrel -- rested on the Chesapeake waters in vast flocks a mile wide and seven miles long. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
But I fear my favorite is the oxeye daisy, I’ve never managed to establish them here and, well, one hates to succumb to jealousy, but… sigh…. From Wordnik.com. [Searching For December Bloom Day « Fairegarden] Reference
The little oxeye daisy is the most surprising. From Wordnik.com. [Searching For December Bloom Day « Fairegarden] Reference
Like oxeye daisies of the field. From Wordnik.com. [Song-waves] Reference
The nodding oxeye bends before the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference
Its bit of heaven; there the oxeye stirs. From Wordnik.com. [Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses] Reference
While arching oxeye doubles with his weight. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference
Sunspurge and oxeye. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference
oxeye daisy. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
Daisies, oxeye, 198, 203, 214. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
Like oxeye daisies of the field. From Wordnik.com. [Song-waves] Reference
Six kinds of clovers and vetches; and besides, dandelion, and rattle, and oxeye, and sorrel, and plantain, and buttercup, and a little stitchwort, and pignut, and mouse-ear hawkweed, too, which nobody wants. From Wordnik.com. [Madam How and Lady Why] Reference
(wine), monuron (a herbicide), moon-eye (a fish), moon-eyed (open-eyed), and moonflower, as headwords not in L; the same interval in L reveals montbretia (a plant), Montessorian (teaching method), month of Sundays, Montilla, - mony (suffix) Moog synthesizer, moon daisy (the oxeye), moon-faced, moonglow, and moonrat, which do not appear in W. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1] Reference
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