There are so many, I had to limit myself to these few.

by MajorHotLips

27 comments
  1. Bulbous buttercup could go either way, to be honest. Is it an insult, or a compliment? Who can tell.

  2. Given that the Small Teasel looks so soft and cute, I unwarrantedly extrapolated to what a Big Teasel would look like only to be disappointed with a quick google image search. yikes they look positively painful.

  3. I guess a Woolly Thistle is a Scotsman living on the Wirral.

  4. I know you limited it, I love the others too like nipplewort, stinking Willy, bastard toadflax, white horehound, black horehound, sticky Willy just to mention a few

  5. Fat hen? So my neighbour was talking the plants in her garden and not about me?

  6. Fiddleneck and Lungwort from the 
    Boraginaceae family are pretty good.

  7. They could be the names of the faeries that *don’t* make it into the story books. Might be an idea for a progressive modern fairy tale.

  8. Son, you better not be hanging out with those common ragworts again!

  9. Woolly thistles, are they those huge ones with long sharp spines

  10. I’ll have you know, my teasel is a perfectly adequate size!

  11. These sound good in Blackadder’s voice, like when he’s insulting Baldrick!

  12. Viper’s bugloss. If you’re on the A11, it’s the blue one you can see everywhere.

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