felwort

• fellwort, felwoort

Probably a corruption of fieldwort.

felwort (countable and uncountable, plural felworts)

1. A European herb, Swertia perennis (star swertia), of the gentian family.
2. Any member of any species in genus Swertia.
3. Any member of any species in the tribe Gentianeae
   • 1597, John Gerard, Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, Chapter 100: Of Felwoort, or Baldmoney, pages 350–352:
   • 1994, Phil Abbott, The Naturalist, volume 119, number 1010, Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, page 125:

     On 31st July 1990 seven plants of a small felwort, Gentianella amarella (L.) Boerner, were discovered by the writer growing in short, sheep-grazed Festuca – Sesleria grassland at Kettlewell. Unlike our usual felwort which has blue flowers, these plants had the corolla white on the inside with a maroon outer surface and fitted exactly the description of Gentianella amarella ssp. septentrionalis (Druce) N. Pritch. This determination was subsequently confirmed by Dr Noel Pritchard, BSBI referee for Gentianaceae.

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• Wolfert, flow'ret, flowret