scabious in a sentence

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1. The common names of these flowers are a variant of " widow flower . " Others are given the name " Scabious, " although this word belongs to a related genus ( " Scabiosa " ).
2. The grasslands at Quarrington Hill are typical of the type, being characterised by the presence of blue moor-grass, " Sesleria albicans ", and small scabious, " Scabiosa columbaria ".
3. "' Sheep's bit scabious "', " Jasione montana ", is a low-growing plant in the Campanulaceae family found in rocky places and upland regions of Europe and western Asia.
4. On one of his excursions, he discovered " on the evening, Trenta side of Triglav, a new species of scabious " and picked it for his herbarium collection, nowadays preserved in the Natural History Museum of Slovenia.
5. In 1782, a mysterious pale yellow scabious, called " Scabiosa trenta ", was described by Belsazar Hacquet, an Austrian physician, botanist, and mountaineer, in his work " Plantae alpinae Carniolicae ".
6. The site's interest lies in an area of unimproved magnesian limestone grassland, in which blue moor-grass, " Sesleria albicans ", and small scabious, " Scabiosa columbaria ", are the dominant species.
7. Amongst these are found a number of species associated with limestone including kidney vetch ( " Anthyllis vulneraria " ), purging flax ( " Linum catharticum " ) and small scabious ( " Scabiosa columbaria " ).
8. Scabious flowers are nectar rich and attractive to many insects including butterflies and moths such as the six-spot burnet . " Scabiosa " species are food plants for the larvae of some species of Lepidoptera such as the grey pug moth.
9. Adults can be seen from May to October feeding on nectar of Devil's-bit Scabious ( " Succisa pratensis " ), of " Ferulago campestris " and of the Giant Fennel " ( Ferula communis " ).
10. Fen meadow is a classic Boho habitat type, consisting of wet fields locally described as a bog meadow, typified by the species devil's-bit scabious, bog thistle, sedges and occasionally tormentil, purple moor grass and rushes ( " Juncaceae " ).