tormentil

These include tufted vetch, bugle, tormentil, red clover, lady's bedstraw, white campion and greater knapweed.

Here and there a yellow tormentil showed in the grass, a late harebell or a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal.

Sometimes they scuttled along open turf, colored like a tapestry meadow with self-heal, centaury and tormentil.

See Sanguinaria. µ In England the name is given to the tormentil, once used as a remedy for dysentery.

Tormentil, tor′men-til, n. a genus of plants, one species with an astringent woody root.