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The very plants were unknown to them—pink lousewort with its sprays of hooked flowers, bog asphodel and the thin-stemmed blooms of the sundews, rising above their hairy, fly-catching mouths, all shut fast by night.

In his autobiography, “On the Move,” Dr. Sacks wrote of walking a meadow in the Canadian Rockies with “three botanical ladies,” who taught him the names of the local flora: globe flowers, Indian paintbrush, contorted lousewort.

A meal of frozen possum stewed with lichens, snakeweed, and lousewort.

An abundance of wildflowers — woolly lousewort, campion, lupine, buttercups, Arctic poppy –  create a carpet of color. 

Shirley Lontz Moorhead, Minn. Regarding your reference to the Furbish lousewort as a weed.