Her calf nosed a clump of willowherb, waiting for her to finish. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Spirit Walker by Michelle Paver] Reference
Forests of Rosebay willowherb usually thrown in for nowt, as well. From Wordnik.com. [Reannouncing money yet again] Reference
When the wind howls through the willowherb and ragwort, it can become almost impossible. From Wordnik.com. [St. Andrews not liked by all] Reference
As I understand it, there is a native species of rosebay willowherb and a North American species. From Wordnik.com. [High summer] Reference
'I am not finding it at all dull, these days,' said Cadfael, plucking out willowherb from among the thyme. From Wordnik.com. [One Corpse Too Many]
Stony river shores are widespread, clothed only by pioneer species like willowherb Chamaenerion latifolium. From Wordnik.com. [Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland] Reference
On the morning of the day that the dream changed, the armigers broke their fast with big bowls of oat-and-walnut porridge sweetened with willowherb honey. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
The wild-flowers are willowherb, meadow-sweet, and loosestrife. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] 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
Soybean for hormonal balance, jojoba leaf to fight free radical damage, and willowherb to soothe and heal dry, tired winter skin. From Wordnik.com. [All Women Stalk] Reference
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
Rosebay willowherb was once a rare plant till its seeds were caught up in the slipstreams of trains and travelled on the clothes of Victorian commuters. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Most of the roofs on Sorrell's safari look like patches of neglected grassland or the pockets of buddleia and willowherb which marked British cities after the blitzes of the second world war. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The biodiversity of plant life - the variety and number of species - is falling, with the broad-leaved willowherb, a pink and white flower found on roadsides and waste ground, in most rapid decline. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
And if you can't afford the £300-ish it'll set you back to stay there, you can soon buy the stuff from reception, or even from the Ritz's online shop, just in time for Christmas (we're feeling the bath and shower gel with cornflower and willowherb, in case you're feeling generous). From Wordnik.com. [HotelChatter -] Reference
In the gloom Anthony could make out the tall reeds, and the loosestrife and willowherb against them, that marked the course of the stream where he had caught trout, as a boy; and against the western sky, as he turned in his saddle, rose up the high windy hills where he had hawked with Hubert so many years before. From Wordnik.com. [By What Authority?] Reference
Otherwise known as rosebay willowherb. From Wordnik.com. [High summer] Reference
Ferns and willowherb growing in crevices. From Wordnik.com. [The Skrayling Tree]
(the sweet and the scentless), figwort, veronica, ground ivy, willowherb. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
Sometimes on his rare holidays, and on other days too, he ran away to the Wildbrooks to watch the herons, or to find in the water-meadows the tallest kingcups in the whole world, and the myriad treasures of the river -- the giant comfrey, purple and white, meadowsweet, St. John's Wort, purple loose-strife, willowherb, and the ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-five others, or whatever number else you please, that go to make a myriad. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard] Reference
Sometimes on his rare holidays, and on other days too, he ran away to the Wildbrooks to watch the herons, or to find in the water-meadows the tallest kingcups in the whole world, and the myriad treasures of the river – the giant comfrey, purple and white, meadowsweet, St. John's Wort, purple loose-strife, willowherb, and the ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-five others, or whatever number else you please, that go to make a myriad. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard] Reference
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