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honeywort
[huhn-ee-wurt, -wawrt]
noun
a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of honeywort1
Example Sentences
With an emphasis on diversity and flowers that dry well, she planted 20 varieties, including zinnias, statice, honeywort, sweet peas and cress, by using landscape fabric and a blowtorch to cut the fabric and prevent fraying.
The seeds of sweet peas, honeywort, beans and poppies are child’s play to gather.
The leaves of Honeywort are often lightly spotted, which may be one of its elements of mystery.
Honeywort is seldom seen even in our oldest gardens; but it is a beautiful flower and a most hardy annual, and deserves to be reintroduced.
Cerinthe or Honeywort, loved of bees.
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