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Ragwort

noun
1.
Widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity.  Synonyms: benweed, ragweed, Senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort.
2.
American ragwort with yellow flowers.  Synonyms: butterweed, Senecio glabellus.



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"Ragwort" Quotes from Famous Books



... great white clouds were loitering across the deep-blue heaven. White butterflies wavered above the road. Tall foxglove spires lit the woodland shadows with rosy gleams. Bluebells and golden ragwort fringed the hedge-rows. A family of young wrens fluttered in and out of the hawthorns. A yellow-hammer, with cap of gold, warbled his sweet, common little song. The colour of the earth was warm and red; the grass was of a green so living that it ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke


Words linked to "Ragwort" :   wildflower, wild flower, weed, ragweed, genus Senecio, butterweed, Senecio


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