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willowherb |
(n): a plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers and seeds with silky hairs
(n): a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
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On top of us
coiffures of willowherb fleece puff their last
uphill.
In Castle Gardens fermenting
mulch in September, honey fumes throb
a mirage of clipped lobelia beds
where we loll and, ungrudgingly, limp with stooks
too long left on fields beyond Broad Street, brown
and burn out.
- Peter Reading, For the Municipality's Elderly, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974