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Silphium

NOUN
  1. tall North American perennial herbs

How To Use Silphium In A Sentence

  • Here is balsam of Genesareth, incense from Cape Gardefan, ladanum, cinnamon and silphium, a good thing to put into sauces. Tentation de saint Antoine. English
  • The silphium plant, a sturdy umbellifer (though with some untypical features), was a regular Cyrenaic coin type for hundreds of years.
  • Young buds were pickled in vinegar or brine with silphium and cumin.
  • I tend to grow them with grasses and similar prairie plants such as silphium, tradescantias, helleniums and asters.
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