How To Use Centranthus In A Sentence
- Plant red valerian and centranthus, with their domes of nectar-rich flowers against walls or in cracks and crevices.
- To the right of them sprang up the slim fraxinella, the centranthus draped with snowy blossoms, and the greyish hounds-tongue, in each of whose tiny flowercups gleamed a dewdrop. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
- The pyrenean prunella has large purple heads; the false dragonhead (_Physostegia_), pale rose-purple spikes; centranthuses, cymes of red and white; centaureas, heads of yellow, blue, and purple; pinks, divers shades of red and white; and monkshoods, hoods of blue or white; and all are very hardy, ready growers, and copious bloomers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
- Coode and Richardson pointed out a relationship between Centranthus and Valeriana because both genera share a plumose pappus.
