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

Johnson's "kingspear, Jews-ear, lady-mantle, and lady-bedstraw," are no more proper, than Webster's "bear's-wort, lion's foot, lady's mantle, and lady's bed-straw."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Even after this the painstaking painter probably added some finishing touches and inscribed his name and the date, 1775, upon the ornamental border of the lady's mantle.

From Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)