Even in the really bright pink flowers such as rosebay willowherb, blue sneaks in to add a trace of purple as it does in wild thyme and centaury. From Wordnik.com. [Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Otherwise known as rosebay willowherb. From Wordnik.com. [High summer] Reference
Hornfel touched a finger to one of the rosebay™s delicate flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Stormblade]
As I understand it, there is a native species of rosebay willowherb and a North American species. From Wordnik.com. [High summer] Reference
Hearty yellow-flowered gorse poked through those sweeping fans as though caring little for the prerogatives of royalty, and rosebay crept up the border of the planting in low growing mats. From Wordnik.com. [Stormblade]
Vegetables and fruit-trees were flanked by herbaceous borders running down to a tarred fence at the end, where a curtain of giant convolvulus, drooping over a mass of mallow and foxglove, borage and rosebay willow-herb, suggested that Miss Barnslow had not yet got round to the task of civilizing this corner of the estate. From Wordnik.com. [Crime On the Coast]
That rosebay is the most graceful shrub in the yard. From Wordnik.com. [Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet] Reference
Rhododendron maximum, L. Mountain laurel; wild rosebay. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
In the valleys we saw the laurel and the dwarf rosebay, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland] Reference
The road and footpath are separated by a bank of tall weeds, consisting mainly of rosebay willowherb. From Wordnik.com. [Hyde Daily Photo] Reference
In July and August the glades of the Abinger woods, like the woods about Byfleet and Woking, gleam with the pinks and purples of rosebay. From Wordnik.com. [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference
Abbott Lowell, the former president of Harvard University, who bequeathed the property to the Trustees of the Reservation in 1942, had embellished the old-growth forest with plantings of rosebay, mountain laurel and catawba rhododendron. From Wordnik.com. [CapeCodToday Blog Chowder] Reference
Here, too, were masses of evergreen, and red-pointed mosses, and the azaleas again along the border of streamlets, and purple rosebay and the tall grasses in the clearings, in whose midst nestled timorously tiny white blossoms and ground berries. From Wordnik.com. [The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland] Reference
But here in the Water Gap it was not without some of its accustomed brightness of tints -- the sugar-maple with its golden leaves, and the water-maple with its foliage of scarlet, contrasted with the intense green of the hemlock-fir, the pine, the rosebay-laurel, and the mountain-laurel, which here grow in the same thicket, while the ground below was carpeted with humbler evergreens, the aromatic wintergreen, and the trailing arbutus. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America] Reference
The rosebay™s tender flower shivered a little. From Wordnik.com. [Stormblade]
rosebay rhododendron. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
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