scabious

IPA: skˈæbiʌs

Examples of "scabious" in Sentences

The field scabious is a multipetaled blue – sometimes purple – ball of a flower.
The Scotch argus butterflies were flitting over the bog myrtle, ling and devil's-bit scabious.
Mauve scabious and darker purple knapweed wave their heads in the aftermath of a summer thunderstorm.
Some of the butterflies were seeking nectar from the purple-blue scabious flowers that lined the path.
One of the species worked on this year is the devil's-bit scabious, a medicinal plant native to the UK.
Another species, devil's-bit scabious, has evolved to germinate only in spring after a long period of winter chilling.
As we walked through dense patches of devil's bit scabious, scores of peacock butterflies – sometimes two to a flower head – rose and fluttered around us.
There are 12 wild flower species in the ordinary playing field but in its first year the haven was home to 107 species, including scabious, white campion and bird's foot trefoil.
The thistles, knapweeds and willowherbs are truer purple, but the bluish nettle-leaved bellflowers and field scabious are also tinged with that mysterious shadow which has more to do with night than golden day.
Wet-kneed, we walked by pastures filled with the white froth of meadowsweet and river-bank flora of lady's bedstraw, betony, devil's bit scabious, greater burnet and eyebright, kneeling several times to store memories of the scent of the last of the fragrant orchids.