NOUN
- low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side
How To Use greater stitchwort In A Sentence
- Plants are greater stitchwort, bluebell, devils bit scabious, Himalayan balsam, ragged robin, marsh marigold, quaking grass and lady's smock.
- Great wood-rush Luzula sylvatica is locally dominant in the woodland, and the characteristic greater stitchwort Stellaria holostea is found in more open patches.
- Primroses bugle, greater stitchwort, violets, celandine and many more other flowers scatter the verge and banks of the large ditch along side.
- ‘Dead Man's Bones’ is the folk name given to the herb Greater stitchwort, a perennial plant found in damp, shady places throughout Europe.
- There are patches of wood-sorrel, wood anemone and greater stitchwort in the ground layer; a wide variety of fungi appear in autumn.
- Hedgerows are a blaze with the blackthorn blossom, whose subtle creamy shade of white is nicely contrasted with the much more pure brilliant white of the greater stitchworts and mouse ear blooms which are flowering along side these shrubs in many places.
