How To Use Scabious In A Sentence
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A lot of them were marked, or born wrong, or crooked, or scabious, looking for help from the Nazarene, for some panacea.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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Another species, devil's-bit scabious, has evolved to germinate only in spring after a long period of winter chilling.
Kew unveils native flower seed bank
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Other Canary Island endemics are shrubby scabious Pterocephalus lasiospermus, Teide daisy Argynanthemum teneriffae, red bugloss Echium wildpretti, flixweed Descurainia bourgeauana and D. lemsii, Canary Island wallflower Erisimon scoparius and Canary Island wall lettuce Tolpis webbii.
Teide National Park, Spain
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I pulled out all those weeds (well, some of them) and the self-seeded scabious which I have more than enough of.
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Purple gentians and orchids, blue scabious and harebells, orange hawkweeds, and cream and pink yarrow provide a kaleidoscope of colour to enjoy at the end of your walk.
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One of the species worked on this year is the devil's-bit scabious, a medicinal plant native to the UK.
Kew unveils native flower seed bank
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Purple gentians and orchids, blue scabious and harebells, orange hawkweeds, and cream and pink yarrow provide a kaleidoscope of colour to enjoy at the end of your walk.
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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
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There are 12 wild flower species in the ordinary playing field but in its first year the haven was home to 107 species, including scabious, white campion and bird's foot trefoil.
Butterfly revival could be threatened by cuts, warns charity
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Interesting flora includes purple devil's bit scabious and lilac field scabious, the yellow daisy-like common fleabane and the tall, cream-flowered meadow sweet.
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The Scotch argus butterflies were flitting over the bog myrtle, ling and devil's-bit scabious.
Country diary: Loch Ruthven
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There are 12 wild flower species in the ordinary playing field but in its first year the haven was home to 107 species, including scabious, white campion and bird's foot trefoil.
Butterfly revival could be threatened by cuts, warns charity
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There were still flowers in plenty, pink campion, toadflax, small blue scabious, honeysuckle, and six-inch mushrooms, inedible no doubt, but the blackberries were ripe and juicy enough to quench thirst.
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‘They are all extraordinarily sweet,’ said Siegmund to the full-mouthed scabious and the awkward, downcast ragwort.
The Trespasser
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Wet-kneed, we walked by pastures filled with the white froth of meadowsweet and river-bank flora of lady's bedstraw, betony, devil's bit scabious, greater burnet and eyebright, kneeling several times to store memories of the scent of the last of the fragrant orchids.
Country diary: Forest-in-Teesdale
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The biological remains show Silbury I was built on mature chalk grassland containing plants such as salad burnet, small scabious, bird's foot trefoil and meadow buttercup, with very little woodland in the area.
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Obviously from the above, scabious is expectorant, alterative, vulnerary and astringent.
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Interesting flora includes purple devil's bit scabious and lilac field scabious, the yellow daisy-like common fleabane and the tall, cream-flowered meadow sweet.
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Other Canary Island endemics are shrubby scabious Pterocephalus lasiospermus, Teide daisy Argynanthemum teneriffae, red bugloss Echium wildpretti, flixweed Descurainia bourgeauana and D. lemsii, Canary Island wallflower Erisimon scoparius and Canary Island wall lettuce Tolpis webbii.
Teide National Park, Spain
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The garden is actually getting rather tired as the summer progresses, but I still have yellow loosestrife, some alstroemeria, alchemilla mollis (ladies' mantle), meadow-sweet, astrantia (this year for the first time in more than one colour), red and white valerian, lavender, veronica and butterfly blue scabious.
Weekend pleasures
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Wet-kneed, we walked by pastures filled with the white froth of meadowsweet and river-bank flora of lady's bedstraw, betony, devil's bit scabious, greater burnet and eyebright, kneeling several times to store memories of the scent of the last of the fragrant orchids.
Country diary: Forest-in-Teesdale
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A big bonus is that the weeds - such as stitchwort, clover, meadow vetchling, tormentils and field scabious - are a positive delight in this patch.
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Boil together hollyhock centaury, herb-benet, scabious, withy leaves; throw them hot into a vessel, set your lord on it; let him bear it as hot as he can, and whatever disease he has will certainly be cured, as men say.
Early English Meals and Manners
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The garden is actually getting rather tired as the summer progresses, but I still have yellow loosestrife, some alstroemeria, alchemilla mollis (ladies' mantle), meadow-sweet, astrantia (this year for the first time in more than one colour), red and white valerian, lavender, veronica and butterfly blue scabious.
Weekend pleasures
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There were still flowers in plenty, pink campion, toadflax, small blue scabious, honeysuckle, and six-inch mushrooms, inedible no doubt, but the blackberries were ripe and juicy enough to quench thirst.
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The thistles, knapweeds and willowherbs are truer purple, but the bluish nettle-leaved bellflowers and field scabious are also tinged with that mysterious shadow which has more to do with night than golden day.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Purple gentians and orchids, blue scabious and harebells, orange hawkweeds, and cream and pink yarrow provide a kaleidoscope of colour to enjoy at the end of your walk.
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Mauve scabious and darker purple knapweed wave their heads in the aftermath of a summer thunderstorm.
Butterflies: out of the blue
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Plants are greater stitchwort, bluebell, devils bit scabious, Himalayan balsam, ragged robin, marsh marigold, quaking grass and lady's smock.
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A lot of them were marked, or born wrong, or crooked, or scabious, looking for help from the Nazarene, for some panacea.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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Some of the butterflies were seeking nectar from the purple-blue scabious flowers that lined the path.
Country diary: Loch Ruthven
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Four ounces of the clarified juice of Scabious taken in the morning fasting, with a dram of Mithridate or Benice treacle, frees the heart from any infection of pestilence.
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Grow clematis, alliums, pinks, ceanothus, lilacs and scabious.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ground flora species of the semi natural woodlands include: wood anemone, lesser celendine, stitchworts, the tangy, lemon tasting wood sorrel, primrose, violet, devils bit scabious and speedwells.
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The grassland areas are grazed by a mixture of cattle and Jacob's sheep, and are sprinkled with wild flowers including devil's-bit scabious, oxeye daisy, bird's-foot-trefoil, harebell and tormentil.
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This combination of management and heavy, poorly-drained soils favoured characteristic plants such as great burnet, devil's bit scabious, meadow rue and pepper saxifrage.
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Wet-kneed, we walked by pastures filled with the white froth of meadowsweet and river-bank flora of lady's bedstraw, betony, devil's bit scabious, greater burnet and eyebright, kneeling several times to store memories of the scent of the last of the fragrant orchids.
Country diary: Forest-in-Teesdale
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As we walked through dense patches of devil's bit scabious, scores of peacock butterflies – sometimes two to a flower head – rose and fluttered around us.
Country diary: Durham coast
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Good examples include clary, cornflower, chrysanthemum, clarkia, godetia, larkspur and scabious.
The Sun
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Wet-kneed, we walked by pastures filled with the white froth of meadowsweet and river-bank flora of lady's bedstraw, betony, devil's bit scabious, greater burnet and eyebright, kneeling several times to store memories of the scent of the last of the fragrant orchids.
Country diary: Forest-in-Teesdale
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Wet-kneed, we walked by pastures filled with the white froth of meadowsweet and river-bank flora of lady's bedstraw, betony, devil's bit scabious, greater burnet and eyebright, kneeling several times to store memories of the scent of the last of the fragrant orchids.
Country diary: Forest-in-Teesdale
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The field scabious is a multipetaled blue – sometimes purple – ball of a flower.
Animal Kingdom Capitalism | Impact Lab
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A rich diversity of plants thrive in the wet conditions at Greena Moor including bog pimpernel, marsh violet, saw-wort and abundant meadow thistle and devil's-bit scabious.
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Among the profusion of flowers you can find scabious, the bedstraws, vetches, ragwort,
Lessons on Soil
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Wild thyme continues to bloom -- the shepherd's thyme -- wild mignonette, blue scabious, white dropwort, yellow bedstraw, and the large purple blooms of greater knapweed.
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