milkwort

Of special interest are spp. of Himalayan origin such as milkwort (Lancea tibetica) and Kobresia moujr.

Khangai Mountains alpine meadow 2008

Lying on the dry brown turf, he discovered sprigs of tiny purple milkwort and pink spots of lousewort.

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

The apothecary would rearrange his bottles, moving the powdered mandrake root to the place where the tinctures of Solomon's seal and milkwort had stood.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

The apothecary would rearrange his bottles, moving the powdered mandrake root to the place where the tinctures of Solomon's seal and milkwort had stood.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

On the road sides you see broom, heather, heath, harebells, along with gorse and bracken with milkwort nestling underneath: crested dog's tail and sheep's fescue are common grasses, while spurrey, knotwood, corn marigold, are a few of the numerous weeds in the arable fields.

Lessons on Soil E. J. Russell

The dry, elastic turf glows, not only with its flowers, but with those of the wild thyme, the clear blue milkwort, the yellow asphodel, and that curious plant the _sundew_, with its drops of inexhaustible liquor sparkling in the fiercest sun like diamonds.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827 Various

All along the road in a light wind you will get the scent of bed-straw and thyme and clover from the green border of the road, and in the short down grass find the plants that love chalk-ground, like the little blue milkwort, which spreads like a film over the higher slopes of the ridge in summer.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

Or milkwort and sorrel, thyme, harebell and meadow-sweet

Georgian Poetry 1920-22 Various 1912

Clover-like heads of the milkwort decorate the bank, and among the mosses around the bases of the trees the little shin-leaf lifts its pretty white racemes.

Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

A stretch of grassy ground, which slopes down to the river's brink, is gemmed with the thick purple clusters of the milkwort, which shines among the grass as the early blossoms of the clover used to do when the summer was young.

Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905