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You can even buy seeds of the Western false asphodel in garden stores.

The western false asphodel doesn’t do this; it puts these sticky hairs on the main stem bearing its flowers, which grows up to 80 centimeters tall.

Around it are wide wastes, wan and cold, and meadows of asphodel, presumably strange, pallid, ghostly flowers.

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.

It was covered with yellowish rocks and the whitest asphodels set against the already hard blue of the sky.