| I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding cowslip grow. |
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| Evelyn also listed cowslip among eight flowers which were to be infused in vinegar and eaten in composed salads or alone. |
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| The crocus, the cowslip and its near relation, the primrose and the other early wild flowers will soon follow. |
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| Primula florindae, the Himalayan cowslip, was the next in the sequence to flower, starting in late June and finishing at the end of July. |
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| There are flowers running the gamut from native wildflowers such as the cowslip to exotic foreigners. |
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| A dewdrop fell from the petal of a lone cowslip growing by the garden wall. |
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| Primrose, cowslip, lady's mantle, bugle, thrift, clustered bellflower are widely available in garden centres, but are all natives. |
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| In the damp fields surrounding the streams I found cowslip, self heal and mayflower. |
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| The P. veris of Linnaeus's time is still to this day known as the cowslip. |
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| What Sutherland finds in the landscape is quite different, of course, from Palmer's joy in every cowslip, but it is still a form of captivation. |
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| The flowers may also be crystallized The same applies to cowslip flowers. |
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| Even after hops were domesticated, around 700 A. D., they threw in wormwood, henbane, cowslip, ivy, mugwort, bog myrtle, elderberry, oak leaf, laurel leaf, autumn crocus, or wild rosemary. |
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| Going home on the river path, Connie had been thinking of that: of the four new pictures on the schoolroom wall, of Miss Mortimer saying that soon there wouldn't be a cowslip left anywhere. |
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| The cowslip is frequently found on more open ground than the primrose, including open fields, meadows, coastal dunes and clifftops. |
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| The nature reserve features plants such as knapweed, cowslip, pignut, lady's bedstraw and great burnet. |
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| The deletions included acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow. |
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| Another identification marker is the shape of the leaves: cowslip leaf blades are widest at the base, while oxlip blades are widest in the middle. |
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| The common name cowslip may derive from the old English for cow dung, probably because the plant was often found growing amongst the manure in cow pastures. |
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| It contains Banksia Robur, Macrocarpa, Black Eyed Susan, Crowea, Old Man Banksia and Yellow Cowslip Orchid. |
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| The flowers open flat rather than concave as in the case of Primula veris, the Cowslip. |
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| Cowslip leaves have been traditionally used in Spanish cooking as a salad green. |
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| The flowers included Lady's Smock, Cowslip, Ragged Robin and Hemp Agrimony while the local nature reserve officer also planted trees such as oak and rowan. |
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