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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Any of several flowering plants, mostly in the genus Epilobium of the family Onagraceae..
Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so riotous, the meadow-sweet so odorous and pervading.
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.
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.
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Willowherb means Any of several flowering plants, mostly in the genus Epilobium of the family Onagraceae..
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Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so riotous, the meadow-sweet so odorous and pervading.
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