speedwells

Yellow buttercups and blue speedwells in the grass, leaves eager with fresh rain in trees above; chiffchaff and blackcap singing; she was not dead yet.

Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

Heavy doses of nitrogen fertiliser will tip the competitive balance in favour of grasses, and soon purple wood crane's bill, blood-red greater burnet, frothy white pignut and meadowsweet, yellow lady's bedstraw, globe flower and blue speedwells will vanish, leaving an "improved" pasture – more productive, more profitable, but oh-so dull.

Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates 2011

They were in bloom, and so were the speedwells, eglantines, thistles, and the sweetbriar that sprang up from the thickets.

Madame Bovary 2003

Many speedwells still remain in fine condition, notably _Veronica longifolia; _ they are a hardy and a showy race of plants, and will grow anywhere.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various

(Fig.  120, _H_), and speedwells (_Veronica_) have duller-colored or smaller flowers.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

He had let his senses sink into the sunlit greenery of the towering woods opposite; he had watched the spiders and the little shining beetles, the flycatchers, and sparrows in the ivy; touched the mosses and the lichens; looked the speedwells in the eye; dreamed of he knew not what.

Saint's Progress John Galsworthy 1900

He had let his senses sink into the sunlit greenery of the towering woods opposite; he had watched the spiders and the little shining beetles, the flycatchers, and sparrows in the ivy; touched the mosses and the lichens; looked the speedwells in the eye; dreamed of he knew not what.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

People came forward with dainty bunches of flowers to complete her toilet, sweet wild flowers they were, delicate speedwells and forget-me-nots with their fresh green, and their innocent blue eyes; the warm scarlet pimpernel, violets, snowdrops, heather bells, and ladies 'white petticoats.

Cornwall's Wonderland Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

His camera obscura haunted with flashing water and speedwells and daisies and horse-gowans, he fell fast asleep, and dreamed that his father and he were defending the castle from a great company of pirates, with the old captain at the head of them.

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

They were in bloom, and so were the speedwells, eglantines, thistles, and the sweetbriar that sprang up from the thickets.

Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Gustave Flaubert 1850