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The ragworts are bright daisy-like yellow flowers, but have a much darker side.
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Aches: Take a bunch of small daisy-like yellow flowers called 'árnica,' which can be found in the fields in July, from vendors on the streets or from the herbalists when dried, and make an infusion with alcohol.
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Aches: Take a bunch of small daisy-like yellow flowers called 'árnica,' which can be found in the fields in July, from vendors on the streets or from the herbalists when dried, and make an infusion with alcohol.
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Features clusters of daisy-like flowers (2″ diameter) with distinctive wedge-shaped, bright yellow rays (three-lobed at the tips) and prominent, dome-like, dull yellow center disks.
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There are lots of cases of people referring to different plants by the same common name, but ‘black-eyed susan’ is pretty universally applied to the summer daisy-like flower.
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The other day they were yellow daisy-like flowers.
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The active ingredient in Buzz Off clothing is permethrin, a synthetic version of pyrethrum, a natural insect repellent derived from the daisy-like flowers of a plant in the chrysanthemum family.
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We left Brighton soon after three in the afternoon, and not in the morning's overpowering black car with the unnervingly silent chauffeur (obeying my father's 'no explanation' instructions, it seemed) but in a cheerful metallic coffeecoloured Range Rover with silver and gold garlands of daisy-like flowers in metal paint shining along the sides.
Penalty Francis, Dick 1997
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A daisy-like flower was growing in the thick green grasses.
Touch the Wind Janet Dailey 1986
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A daisy-like flower was growing in the thick green grasses.
Touch the Wind Janet Dailey 1986
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