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Example sentences for "hawkweed"

Lexicographically close words:
hawkers; hawking; hawklike; hawks; hawksbill; hawl; hawn; haws; hawse; hawser
  1. The Pillager Ojibwe use the milk of the Common Milkweed along with the milk of Canada Hawkweed to put on a deer call, thinking that it will better imitate the call of a fawn that is hungry or in distress.

  2. The Flambeau Ojibwe use this plant in the same manner as they do the Canada Hawkweed to attract a doe to them for a close shot.

  3. In the same genus we have the Hawkweed Picris (P.

  4. One species at least is a common wayside flower, and this is the Shrubby Hawkweed (H.

  5. Transplanted into the garden, the orange hawkweed forms a spreading mass of unusual, splendid color.

  6. Canada Hawkweed is common on the borders of woods from Newfoundland to British Columbia south to N.

  7. Along the paths there is a fringe of hawkweed and crowfoot and yellow cistus.

  8. To-morrow night not a touch of colour will remain of all its mingled beauty, ruined now past all hope; not a petal of its oxeye daisies, not a hawkweed unwithered, not a lingering clover bloom.

  9. Under the hot noonday sun each waft of air that stirred across it was fragrant with mingled perfumes, of the scent of hawkweed and lotus and sweet clover blooms.

  10. In the case of the hawkweed and the dandelion there is at present no means of distinguishing between these two contrasting causes of variability.

  11. One of them is the hawkweed or Hieracium, and the other is the dandelion or Taraxacum officinale.

  12. The Greeks considered the Hawkweed a holy plant, inasmuch as it was dedicated to the use of a bird they held sacred.

  13. The old tradition that the hawk feed upon Hawkweed and led her young ones early to eat the plant, that by its juices they might gain acuteness of vision, was believed some centuries ago not only in England but throughout Europe.

  14. But whether these St. John's flowers were the mouse-ear hawkweed or not is doubtful.

  15. The Scotch call the dandelion the hawkweed gowan.

  16. The heath glittered in the sun, the withered hawkweed crackled at his feet, a warm wind blew softly towards him.


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