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gromwell

NOUN
  1. European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands

How To Use gromwell In A Sentence

  • Among the other species are broom groundsel, James' catseye, narrow-leaf gromwell, narrow-leaved penstemon, needle and thread, nodding buckwheat, rubber rabbitbrush, and yucca.
  • Father, "Cadfael pursued, while he had every man's attention," that I showed you the blue flowers of the gromwell he wore in his cap when he was found. The Leper of Saint Giles
  • He had found his creeping gromwell, and he had found the place where Huon de Domville had spent the last night of his life. The Leper of Saint Giles
  • -- Anise; cardamom; carraway; citron; coriander; fennel; gromwell; melon; musk grains; mustard; nettle; parsley; saffron; tulip, seedy buds of; wormwood. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
  • Among the other species are broom groundsel, James' catseye, narrow-leaf gromwell, narrow-leaved penstemon, needle and thread, nodding buckwheat, rubber rabbitbrush, and yucca.
  • Gromwells are plants in the borage family. The Times Literary Supplement
  • That exquisitely beautiful grass-leaved gromwell which is supposed to be unsuited to our climate, Lithospermum graminifolium, covers a broad ledge, and is not less delightful than the better-known prostratum and the form Heavenly Blue; among profusely bloomed blue-flowered plants there are few greater June treasures than these gromwells.
  • Corn gromwell is an annual with erect, slender, single stems or several stems branched from the base.
  • They include the landslipped cliffs and cliff-top grasslands of West Dorset, the occurrence of the rare purple gromwell Lithosperum purpureocaeruleum between the River Sid and Seaton Hole and coastal ash woodland Fraxinus excelsior located between Axmouth and Lyme Regis Undercliffs. Dorset and East Devon Coast, United Kingdom
  • False gromwell is the common name usually applied to plants in this genus because of a perceived similarity in appearance to some of the gromwells (Lithospermum).
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