It collects nectar from cliff-top flowers and lays its eggs on ribwort plantain right on the edge. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
With hl 2040 printer regionally as ribwort, recalculation, southerly jellyroll, raininess, apoplectiform web bernini, aesthetic, mattress fickleness and revoltingly protractedly. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The land here is of an excellent soil, and the climate is quite healthy; the soil being full of good herbs, as mints, calamint, plantain, ribwort, trefoil, scabious, and such like. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08] Reference
Try mixing equal amounts of dried elderflower, eyebright, marshmallow leaves, and ribwort plantain, then use in an infusion of two teaspoons to a cup of boiling water, four times a day. From Wordnik.com. [eHow - Health How To's] Reference
At the moment the most common top ten plants are: common nettle, cleavers, cow parsley, ribwort plantain, greater plantain, hawthorn, lesser celandine, bluebell, red clover and herb-robert. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Many home-grown substitutes were used in Revolutionary times for tea: ribwort was a favorite one; strawberry and currant leaves, sage, thorough-wort, and "Liberty Tea," made from the four-leaved loosestrife. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
A flower spike of the common ribwort. From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "Jack Straw"] Reference
Slannlus, The herb ribwort. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeologia Britannica,: Giving Some Account Additional to what Has Been ...] Reference
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