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• Many home-grown substitutes were used in Revolutionary times for tea: ribwort was a favorite one; strawberry and currant leaves, sage, thorough-wort, and "Liberty Tea," made from the four-leaved loosestrife. Home Life in Colonial Days
• 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
• The undulating green expanse was studded with the black knobs of ribwort plantain and gemmed with buttercups, which here were dotted like sparks of fire, here massed in broad bunches and splashes of color. Lying Prophets
• The land here is of an excellent soil, and the climate is quite healthy; the soil being full of good herbs, as mints, calamint, plantain, ribwort, trefoil, scabious, and such like. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
• In the course of our short walk, Barry reckons he's counted no fewer than 16 species of the ‘prettier’ wildflowers, including cranesbill, herb robert, various clovers, ribwort plantain, figwort and dog rose.
• It collects nectar from cliff-top flowers and lays its eggs on ribwort plantain right on the edge Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph