herbaceous

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“When it comes to our founder’s favorites, the delicate, herbaceous flavor of sage ranks high on the list,” the As Ever email read.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 4, 2025

Over the past year, 150 people have spent more than 40,000 hours volunteering to maintain green spaces across the resort, including the herbaceous borders at Rotten Row.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025

Using what he had — dried herbs, powdered garlic and onion, black pepper — he whipped up a blend that could be stirred into mayonnaise and buttermilk to make something tangy, herbaceous and addictive.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025

The rest of the book profiles 368 “often beautiful, but mostly unwanted” plants, organized into sections for trees and shrubs, herbaceous plants, grasses and grasslike plants and aquatic weeds.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2024

The herbaceous smell of cut grass mingled with lilac.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner