The leaves of the silverweed are brown and curled like ageing scraps of paper. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: South Uist] Reference
There is softness in the luxuriance of the grass and the leaves of the silverweed, still curled in upon themselves and looking pale and almost feathery. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary] Reference
Salt marshes occur here and there in protected inlets, their lower parts dominated by creeping saltmarsh grass Puccinellia phryganodes, the upper parts by Pacific silverweed Potentilla egedii. From Wordnik.com. [Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland] Reference
I love the gorse and the bracken, I love the stagnant pond, I love the very geese that tug hard at the silverweed, they make it all seem so deliciously English. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Did] Reference
Of the silverweed flower. From Wordnik.com. [Winning a Cause World War Stories] Reference
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