cow parsley
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It helps nurture a slower, older way of life, with pocket flocks and modest dairy herds enclosed by thick hedgerows foaming with cow parsley and twittering songbirds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Certain species such as cow parsley, yarrow and knapweed are in fact spreading, and he welcomes an influx of non-native plants and "garden escapes", such as snowdrop and buddleia.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
The road ran like a twisty runnel through fuchsia hedges and bright fields of buttercups and cow parsley, up to a pass among the 3,000-foot Slieve Mish mountains.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2019
Main Avenue, home to the major show gardens, was awash with broad-leaved trees among a calming palette of green, pale yellow and white flowers, including swathes of cow parsley, euphorbias and meadowsweet.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2019
The ditch was thick with cow parsley, hemlock and long trails of green-flowering bryony.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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