Examples of asphodel in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The plant, a species of the false asphodel, is a delicate plant that traps insects with sticky hairs on its flowering stem, according to a news release from UBC. — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 10 Aug. 2021 The species in the new study, called the western false asphodel (Triantha occidentalis), lives in mountainous bogs and other nutrient-poor locations in western North America. — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 9 Aug. 2021 Among them is a native New Jersey blackberry bush that grows in Cape May, and a bog asphodel, which grows only in the Pinelands after populations in Delaware and the Carolinas were wiped out, Snyder said. — USA TODAY, 12 May 2017

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