traveller's joy
a name given to several different plants that look like long, pale hair or feathers:
The branches are draped with lichens called old man's beard.
The vines were hung with ghostly old man's beard.
The walls of the old mill are covered with ivy and old man's beard.
I twisted together two bunches of ivy and added sprigs of mistletoe and old-man's-beard at regular intervals.
Blackberries and old man's beard added a splash of colour to the hedge.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Flowers & flowering plants
aconite
adam-and-eve
aeonium
African daisy
agapanthus
edelweiss
eglantine
elderflower
elephant ear
erythronium
locoweed
loosestrife
lords-and-ladies
lotus
love-in-a-mist
sedum
sego lily
self-heal
senecio
sensitive plant
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