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

In addition to these, the same work contains etchings of the following brasses:—Gunby, Lincoln., two dogs with plain collars at the bottom of the lady's mantle, 1405.

From Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 by Various

Around them as they passed the soft mosses glowed with gold and crimson, and the edges of the lady’s-mantle shimmered with such diamonds and pearls as never adorned a lady’s mantle yet.

From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)