bachelor's-buttons

A garden, at one end of the house, was red with love-lies-bleeding and coxcombs, their deep hues contrasting with great clumps of marigolds and bachelor's-buttons, all claiming a preemption right over innumerable weeds and any amount of ribbon grass, that struggled hard to drive them out.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

T'want only yisterday Squire Mullins'es cow hed to eat up the top of my pennyroyal geranium and trod down my eardrops and lady-slippers, and now they ain't anything left but bachelor's-buttons that's worth looking at.

The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Various

Daphne odora, I talked of phlox and bachelor's-buttons.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

He sat up, after awhile, looked at the familiar porch, with the potted flowers, and Alix's boxes, where bachelor's-buttons, marguerites, and geraniums had been alternated to make a touch of patriotic colour on July Fourth.

Sisters Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

The crimson ramblers, the hollyhocks, the bachelor's-buttons, and the peonies, the twisted apple tree that never bore more than enough for one pie!

The Pagan Madonna Harold MacGrath 1901

It was almost dusk, and I stopped in the garden a minute to pull the earth closer round some of the bachelor's-buttons that had "popped" the ground some weeks ago.

The Melting of Molly Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

"So after ten years Alfred Bennett is coming back to offer his bachelor's-buttons to you, Mrs. Molly?" he said in the voice he always uses when he makes fun of Billy and me, and which never fails to make us both mad.

The Melting of Molly Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

I found wicked flaunting poppies sprouted right up against the sweet modest clover-pinks, while the whole paper of bachelor's-buttons was sowed over everything -- which I immediately began to dig right up again, blushing furiously to myself over the trowel, and glad that I had caught myself before they grew up to laugh in my face.

The Melting of Molly Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

I found wicked flaunting poppies sprouted right up against the sweet modest clove-pinks, while the whole paper of bachelor's-buttons was sowed over everything -- which I immediately began to dig right up again, blushing furiously to myself over the trowel, and glad that I had caught myself before they grew up to laugh in my face.

The Melting of Molly Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

Only Billy's bachelor's-buttons stood up stiff and sturdy, slightly flushed with imbibing the night dew.

The Melting of Molly Maria Thompson Daviess 1898