persicaria
Britishnoun
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The water had not covered it for months, and it was all thickly overgrown with persicaria, which the late summer had stained a carmine red, so that the island was all aflame.
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker
It is like a slender, pale variety of the common pink persicaria.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan
And now, finding it here, the fable revived with added truth and conviction, the legend of the persicaria was as true to her as that other of the Lord's resurrection from death.
From Lying Prophets by Eden Phillpotts
The leaves of persicaria, also, are often selected by the female newt for the purpose of depositing her eggs.
From Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by W. (William) Houghton
But this glow of many tints was a sure sign of approaching autumn; so, too, were the reddened stalks of persicaria, filling the dry ditches by the wayside.
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker
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