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 stitchwort In A Sentence
- If you can create a bank on which to grow your hedge, this will provide more opportunities for plants like primroses, violets and stitchworts.
- Lesser stitchwort, Stellaia graminea, has tiny white flowers with deeply divided petals while red campion, Silene dioica, is much more pink than red.
- 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.
- 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.
- It supports a tremendous variety of flowers including St John's wort, orchids, stitchworts and bugle.
- Verges were yellow and white with celandine and stitchwort.
- The path snaked along the trackbed between banks of stitchwort, yellow archangel and sky-blue flowers of green alkanet. Times, Sunday Times
- Lesser stitchwort is often all but obscured in the grassy slopes and drier meadows it tends to prefer.
- Primroses bugle, greater stitchwort, violets, celandine and many more other flowers scatter the verge and banks of the large ditch along side.