Meanings of bedstraw in английском

The grassy track, so gay with scabious and bedstraw, was snow-white at the bottom of its ruts.

She thought only of him as she ran up the hill over the minute starry carpet of mountain bedstraw.

Even the common names of wildflowers -stitchwort, lady's bedstraw, blue fleabane, feverfew -havean inescapable enchantment about them.

Lady's bedstraw was in high flower until very recently and I eventually found some growing near the pavement on someone's lawn.

The harebells floated no more, the discs of the scabious were shrivelled husks; ladies' bedstraw was straw indeed, but not for ladies' uses.

Now follows the gorse, and the pink rest-harrow, and the sweet lady's bedstraw, set as it were in the midst of a little thorn-bush.

The reason is that lady's-bedstraw is fertilized by small beetles; and beetles are known to be one among the most color-loving races of insects.

Another group of plants containing coumarin are the bedstraws.

Among these are Ladies Bedstraw, whortleberry, yellow iris, bracken, bramble, meadow sweet, alder, heather and many others.

Furthermore, this Bedstraw has been called Goose-grease, from a mistaken belief that obstructive ailments of geese can be cured therewith.

"For what does furniture matter as long as Sussex grows bedstraw for ladies to sleep on?"

From their weak habit it has been conjectured, with much probability, that they may have been climbing plants, like the scrambling Bedstraws of our hedgerows.