What is "hawkweed"

Usage examples of "hawkweed".

Most of the flowers used for jaundice are yellow, like the Dandelion, Agrimony, Celandine, Hawkweed and Marigold.

Tongue Hawkbit, Autumnal Hawkbit, Rough Hawkweed, Wall Hawkweed, Wood Hawkweed, Mouse-Ear Hawthorn Heartsease Hedge-Hyssop Hedge Mustard Heliotrope Hellebore, Black Hellebore, False Hellebore, Green Hellebore, White Hemlock Hemlock, Water Hemp, Enc.

A red dead-nettle, a mauve thistle, white and pink bramble flowers, a white strawberry, a little yellow tormentil, a broad yellow dandelion, narrow hawkweeds, and blue scabious, are all in flower in the lane.

With the paler hawkweeds, whose edges are so delicately trimmed and cut and balanced, almost as if made by cleft human fingers to human design, whose globes of down are like geometrical circles built up of facets, instead of by one revolution of the compasses.

Most of the flowers used for jaundice are yellow, like the Dandelion, Agrimony, Celandine, Hawkweed and Marigold.

A few yellow hawkweeds, a few camomiles, grew in hollows here and there.

The Rough Hawkbit has been used medicinally in the same manner as the Hawkweeds and the Dandelion, for its action on the kidneys and as a remedy for jaundice and dropsy, and is still used for its diuretic qualities in country districts in Ireland.

Hawkweed flowers flashed yellow from the grass whose own small flowers combined to spread a purplish haze of warmth over the earth, condensing into sudden patches of slender purple vetch, of sweet clover, and melancholy thistles that dotted the overgrown church­.

The Wall Hawkweed, probably the commonest of the genus, grows freely in Great Britain in woods and on heaths, walls and rocks.