sea pink

How to use sea pink in a sentence

• Coming to the rocky places, we find tufts of the flower known as sea pink or Thrift.

  On the Seashore | R. Cadwallader Smith

• About it grow great tufts of sea-pink, whose flowers, save here and there a belated bloom or two, have long since gone to seed.

  In the West Country | Francis A. Knight

• The caterpillar feeds on the roots of thrift or sea-pink (Armeria vulgaris), and is full grown about June.

  The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series | Richard South

• The springy tufts of sea-pink which cover the island offer more resistance and a firmer foothold than the sandy earth.

  The Isles of Scilly | Jessie Mothersole