adjective
definition
Having scabs
definition
Of or pertaining to scabies
Examples of scabious in a Sentence
In the American button-bush the heads are globular, in some species of teazel elliptical, while in scabious and in composite plants, as sunflower, dandelion, thistle, centaury and marigold, they are somewhat hemispherical, with a flattened, slightly hollowed, or convex disk.
Contracted or shortened form(Capitulum), Daisy,Dandelion, Scabious.
Some such as fairy flax, devil's bit scabious and sneezewort are due to seed introductions.
Design a summer meadow with some spring plants but include marjoram, knapweed and scabious.
In damp patches marsh valerian, devil's-bit scabious, marsh ragwort, water avens, meadowsweet and can be found.
In very sheltered, stable areas more robust flowering plants can occur such as, rock-rose, small scabious, bloody crane's-bill and marjoram.
Its food plant is devil's-bit scabious, which occurs on both of these habitat types.
They also have impressive displays of cowslips, small scabious and devil's-bit scabious and the widest range of orchids on the reserve.
In addition, grazing and early cutting of hay meadows makes that field scabious often does not reaches the flowering stage.
They spin a communal web near to large patches of their foodplant, Devils bit scabious.
Species include bottle sedge, common cotton sedge, devil's-bit scabious and marsh violet growing over layers of Sphagnum mosses and brown mosses.
It contains common broomrape, basil, marjoram, bladder campion, sweet violet, field scabious and birds foot trefoil.
This may be a major cause of the decline of the scabious bee.