willowherb
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]willowherb (plural willowherbs)
- Any of several flowering plants in the genus Epilobium of the family Onagraceae.
- 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “The Piper at the Gates”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 153:
- Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so riotous, the meadow-sweet so odorous and pervading.
- 1917, Edward Thomas, “Adlestrop”, in Poems, London: Selwyn & Blount, page 40:
- And willows, willow-herb, and grass, / And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, / No whit less still and lonely fair / Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
- 1950 July, “Traveller's Joy”, in Railway Magazine, page ii (advertisement):
- Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.
Derived terms
[edit]- giant willowherb (Chamerion angustifolium)
- golden willowherb (Lythrum salicaria)
- great willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum)
- hairy willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum)
- marsh willowherb (Epilobium palustre)
- milk willowherb (Lythrum spp.; Decodon verticillatus)
- night willowherb (Oenothera biennis)
- rosebay willowherb (Chamerion angustifolium)
- spiked willowherb (Lythrum salicaria)
- swamp willowherb (Epilobium palustre)
- yellow willow herb (Lysimachia vulgaris)
Translations
[edit]Epilobium
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References
[edit]willowherb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Epilobium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Epilobium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons