NOUN
- perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups; its tuberous roots have been used as a poultice to relieve piles
How To Use lesser celandine In A Sentence
- Bluebells form a stunning carpet, along with yellow archangel, lesser celandine, wood anemone and the uncommon coralroot bittercress.
- Lesser celandine and bulbous buttercup supply colour in spring, ragwort and carlile thistle in autumn, but the main burst of flowering is in May, when the varied pinks of a multitude of thrift cushions spreads upwards from the South and West and the north-western turf is starred with the blue of spring squills.
- He wrote several verses in their honour, and even requested that after his death a lesser celandine should be carved on his memorial plaque at the church of St Oswald in the Cumbrian village of Grasmere. The power of spring flowers
- At the moment the most common top ten plants are: common nettle, cleavers, cow parsley, ribwort plantain, greater plantain, hawthorn, lesser celandine, bluebell, red clover and herb-robert. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- With flowers it is the same; the lesser celandine, the marsh marigold, the silvery cardamine, appear first in one particular spot, and may be gathered there before a petal has opened elsewhere. Nature Near London
- The first flowering pulse of the year is yellow, characterised by lesser celandine and primrose.
- Bluebells are nearing their peak in Nut Wood, where there are early red campion in flower, with lots of lesser celandine about, and moschatel at its climax.
- Old Park Wood is the most varied piece of woodland in Middlesex with an abundance of flowers in spring including yellow archangel, lesser celandine, wood anemone, coralroot bittercress and bluebells.
- The early golden ‘stars and suns’ of lesser celandine and dandelion are followed by blackthorn blossom, stitchworts, primroses, violets and early purple orchids.
- But this year members of the public have reported the signs of spring, such as frogspawn, nesting rooks, and lesser celandine blooming in the woods are happening later than usual. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
