bachelor's-buttons

British  

noun

1. (functioning as singular or plural) any of various plants of the daisy family with button-like flower heads

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Example Sentences

It was almost dusk and I stopped in the garden a minute to pull the dirt closer around some of the bachelor's-buttons that had "popped" the ground some weeks ago.

From The Melting of Molly by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

We have bachelor's-buttons, lady-slippers, tiger-lilies, flower-de-luce, hollyhocks, and pinks, besides bushes of lilac and matrimony; then we have old cedars clipped into shape, and ever so many little paths and garden-beds edged with box.

From The Old Stone House by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

Our bachelor's-buttons are ragged sailors in a neighboring state; they are corn-pinks in Plymouth, ragged ladies in another town, blue bottles in England, but cyanus everywhere.

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse

The crimson ramblers, the hollyhocks, the bachelor’s-buttons, and the peonies, the twisted apple tree that never bore more than enough for one pie!

From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)

I make up beds in the garden for her and she sows bachelor’s-buttons, flytraps, pansies, marigolds, hollyhocks, and has morning-glories running over strings around the sitting-room window.”

From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Coffin, Charles Carleton