The spiderwort was a rich blue with its two large petals rounded, while the third one was tiny and colorless. From Wordnik.com. [Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks] Reference
The spiderwort is a flower whose juice is used for painting the silks before they're masked with starch and then dyed. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
Another common one is the spiderwort already referred to. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
A good example is furnished by the common spiderwort (Fig. 1). From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
Maybe, he thought with a smile, this was some common, humble plant he tended'dandelion or catnip or spiderwort. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of A Vanished Moon]
But if you've never smelled the juice of a spiderwort … well, I was very glad at the end of the week to go back to boiling dyes once again. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
Turtlehead, bleeding heart, spiderwort and primrose are also good choices. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota Premier Publications - Southwest Journal Stories] Reference
D, as with this still-to-bloom spiderwort (Tradescantia) variety called Sweet Kate. From Wordnik.com. [Growing Insecurity] Reference
For half the breadth of Kansas the banks of the railroad were heavenly blue with clustered blossoms of the spiderwort. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference
The Bengal dayflower (also known as tropical spiderwort) is becoming an important species in Africa and Asia, not to mention, in irrigated fields. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
In the wood grew, not only the flowers I had before seen, and wealth of tall, wild roses, but the splendid blue spiderwort, that ornament of our gardens. From Wordnik.com. [At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe] Reference
Vanity Fair -- to talk about her gardens, which are displayed in lavish photographs, down to the spiderwort growing underneath the antique stone garden chairs. From Wordnik.com. [AARP.org :] Reference
The blue garden wore full regalia on my visit, a mélange of blue and purple pansies, purply-blue aubrieta gracilis, true blue ladybells, brunnera and sweet Kate spiderwort. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Growing near it on this rise of the road are lavender-flowered bergamot, blue and gold spiderwort, milkweeds in a purple glory, black-eyed Susans basking in the sun, cone-flowers with brown disks and purple petals, like gypsy maidens with gaudy summer shawls. From Wordnik.com. [Some Summer Days in Iowa] Reference
He, plant pathologist Brett Runion, and other colleagues at the Auburn laboratory have found that fast-growing exotic weedy invasives such as Chinese privet, nutsedge and tropical spiderwort could become even more troublesome as CO2 levels increase to 550 parts per million as predicted by 2050. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Lilies and the flower-de-luce sprang up in the place of reeds; smilax and poison-oak gave way to the purple-plumed iron-weed and pink spiderwort; the bindweeds ran everywhere blooming as they ran, and on one of the dead cypresses a giant creeper hung its green burden of foliage and lifted its scarlet trumpets. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools] Reference
The motor cars were full of wild phlox and daisies and spiderwort. ". From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Herself] Reference
(He saw this in the stamen hairs of the spiderwort Tradescantia, still. From Wordnik.com. [GENETIC CONTINUITY] Reference
And I love the spiderwort–I’m hoping I can get a free start one of these days from the Idea Garden. From Wordnik.com. [Wildflowers Of May* « Fairegarden] Reference
I also found Tradescantia, or spiderwort. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.