red valerian

American  

noun

1. a bushy valerian, Centranthus ruber, of Europe and southwestern Asia, having many fragrant red, crimson, or white flowers.

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Etymology

Origin of red valerian

First recorded in 1590–1600

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red valerian

Presently we turned up byways, over which the prickly-pear and red valerian broke in profuse and unprecise beauty—fleshy-leaved creepers, too, as of a house-leek turned passion-flower, over-crowned all with scarlet blotches of cunningly placed colour.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

For myself, I love the spectacle of stone walls breaking out into flower with red valerian and ivy-leaved toad-flax.

From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd

A mellow brick wall enclosed the orchard, a wall beautified by small green ferns, by pink and red valerian, and yellow toadflax.

From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Leslie Moore

Not a wall but flaunted red valerian and snapdragon.

From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

Masses of red valerian, and some of the graceful bright rose-bay willow-herb, give colour to the banks and overhang the walls.

From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Rosalind Northcote

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