Chickweed wintergreen


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a low perennial primulaceous herb (Trientalis Americana); - also called star flower.

See also: Wintergreen

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Carol: A shy little plant, also known as chickweed wintergreen.
Which is the blooming best? Vote for favourite wild flower
Finally, two book reviews are included, of Harry Martinson's Chickweed Wintergreen (2010) and Kjell Espmark's Outside the Calendar.
Introduction to special issue of Swedish literature studies
Chickweed Wintergreen, newly selected and translated by Robin Fulton, is by far the largest single collection of Martinson's poems we've seen so far.
Harry Martinson. Chickweed Wintergreen
He is Bloodaxe's sixth Nobel Laureate and their second Swedish one - the other being Harry Martinson whose book Chickweed Wintergreen: Selected Poems was published by Bloodaxe last year.
Publisher's Nobel effort; Sixth Laureate for Bloodaxe Books hailed
Around the margins the colour is supplied by species such as ladies' bedstraw, heathers and the uncommon chickweed wintergreen.
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Two rather specialised wild flowers that most of us are unlikely to see are trientalis europaea, the chickweed wintergreen, thriving in wet acid moorland and coniferous forests and the brookweed, samolus valerandii, found on bare ground near the sea but which may also be seen being used as a submersed aquatic in well-lit cool water aquariums.
Love those primulas!
25.Arctic starflower Carol: Also known as Chickweed wintergreen, it's a shy little plant.
Which is the blooming best? Cast vote for your favourite
Posthumously published Chickweed Wintergreen is the most recent publication of Nobel Prize winner Harry Martinson (1904-1978).
In his introduction to Chickweed Wintergreen, Staffan Soderblom emphasises that Martinson interpreted not only the unknown but also the "intimately familiar", using a poetic language that was regarded at the time as new (10).
Chickweed Wintergreen contains an extract from the epic Aniara, considered to be Martinson's most original production.
A review on Chickweed Wintergreen
I long for cool air and chickweed wintergreens. One white star, and then another, then many scattered under a fir tree.
And there, in the moss under the big trees, the chickweed wintergreens have opened their flowers.
Selections from Masters of the Forest

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