lady's mantle

British  

noun

1. any of various rosaceous plants of the N temperate genus Alchemilla, having small green flowers

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Example Sentences

We pulled fistfuls of rosebay willow, yarrow and lady’s mantle.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2019

In an interview with Vogue, she complained that varieties of Alchemilla, a herbaceous perennial commonly known as lady’s mantle, were “well known in England and, I think, not enough appreciated in America.”

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2014

Nearby there’s a four-square garden, with fairy roses surrounded by annuals like tulips and alyssum and — typical for Revolutionary War-era homes — herbs, with lady’s mantle and chive among them, and Egyptian onions.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2011

The plants still in flower are the dark blue monkshood, which is 7ft. high; the spiked veronica; the meadow-sweet or queen-o'-the-meadow; the lady's mantle, and the evening primrose.

From Garden-Craft Old and New by Sedding, John D.

The tailors, fifteen years hence, seemed to have borrowed, in the construction of the coat, very liberally from the lady's mantle of 1893.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Newnes, George