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UK
/ɹˈæɡwɔːt/
]
NOUN
- widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity
- American ragwort with yellow flowers
How To Use ragwort In A Sentence
- Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub. Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
- In these Lammas days, the flowers of the sun are bird's-foot trefoil, meliots, medicks, St John's wort, yellow-wort, ragwort and hawkbits. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
- It is important to go in as soon as possible as you do not want poisonous plants, such as ragwort, present in cutting or grazing leys. FWi - All News
- Daisies usually call to mind open, dry fields bathed in sun, but ragwort is one daisy that thrives in shaded, wet soil.
- I thought that she might have had ingested ragwort, which is extremely poisonous, often fatal for horses. Second Wind
- BREMERTON - People throughout Western Washington are reporting unusual numbers of a poisonous weed called tansy ragwort. The Seattle Times
- One story is told of a man who saw a leprechaun bury a purse of gold in a field of ragwort.
- He kicked at a clump of ragwort with his toe and left it uprooted, to perish: was that part of the plan? GRACE
- These last few have been days to hold on to: bright sunshine through fat-bottomed clouds; ringlet butterflies flickering over flowering grasses; yellow-and-black-banded cinnabar moth caterpillars twitching as they spun threads to tie themselves to ragwort; bright pink lip-gloss heads of pyramidal orchids – these things once observed becoming dearly held. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
- People throughout Western Washington are reporting unusual numbers of a poisonous weed called tansy ragwort. The Seattle Times