Tansy vs Ragwort - What's the difference?
tansy | ragwort |
A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum , especially .
* 1913 , DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers , Penguin 2006, p. 365:
(uncountable, obsolete) A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish.
Any of a number of wild flowering plants with yellow flowers in the family Asteraceae, mostly belonging to Senecio and related genera.
*1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 237:
*:Ragwort is under the command of dame Venus, and cleanses, digests and discusses.
As nouns the difference between tansy and ragwort
is that tansy is a herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially species: Tanacetum vulgare while ragwort is any of a number of wild flowering plants with yellow flowers in the family Asteraceae, mostly belonging to Senecio and related genera.As a proper noun Tansy
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English
(wikipedia tansy)Noun
- The sunny afternoon was there, like another land. By the path grew tansy and little trees.
- (Pepys)