NOUN
- plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers
- European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America
How To Use brooklime In A Sentence
- He treated his scorbutic patients with a mixture of plant and vegetable juices made from water cress, brooklime, scurvy grass, all herbs rich in ascorbic acid.
- An attractive native speedwell, brooklime will grow profusely and happily in garden ponds.
- In and alongside the stream, a different suite of plants can be found including yellow iris, hemlock water-dropwort, lesser spearwort and brooklime.
- Various other plants which are sometimes referred to as watercress or mixed with it or treated in the same ways include brooklime, Veronica beccabunga.
- He treated his scorbutic patients with a mixture of plant and vegetable juices made from water cress, brooklime, scurvy grass, all herbs rich in ascorbic acid.
- In and alongside the stream, a different suite of plants can be found including yellow iris, hemlock water-dropwort, lesser spearwort and brooklime.
- Here and there the water glinted with rafts of brooklime and the evergreen watercress. Times, Sunday Times
