blue succory

American  

noun

1. a composite garden plant, Catananche caerulea, of southern Europe, having very hairy leaves and blue flower heads, used by the ancients as a love potion.

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Example Sentences

The grass along the roadside was yellow and dry; blue succory bloomed everywhere among it; here and there a bunch of wild poppies hung drooping on their slender stalks.

From 'O Thou, My Austria!' by Schubin, Ossip

One of his neighbors erected a Flemish château, another a Florentine palazzo, and a third a François Premier hôtel; but his plot of ground remained an unkempt tangle of mullein and blue succory.

From The Wild Olive by King, Basil

Clear pale blue succory is the most charming of all, and I am going to send you some plants as soon as they have ceased flowering.

From Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front by Henderson, Keith

She strolled away, picking tiny, pink-tipped daisies and blue succory blossoms growing in the moist green grass.

From Daphne, an autumn pastoral by Sherwood, Margaret Pollock