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