scabious

Adjective modifier

• small: In very sheltered, stable areas more robust flowering plants can occur such as, rock-rose, small scabious, bloody crane's-bill and marjoram.
• devil's-bit: Its food plant is devil's-bit scabious, which occurs on both of these habitat types.

Modifies a noun

bee: This may be a major cause of the decline of the scabious bee.

Noun used with modifier

• devil's-bit: They also have impressive displays of cowslips, small scabious and devil's-bit scabious and the widest range of orchids on the reserve.
• field: In addition, grazing and early cutting of hay meadows makes that field scabious often does not reaches the flowering stage.
• bit: They spin a communal web near to large patches of their foodplant, Devils bit scabious.