Crossword-Solution: PILEWORT 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Not this weak invader of our roadsides, whose four yellow petals suggest one of the cross-bearing mustard tribe, but the pert little Lesser Celandine, Pilewort, or Figwort Buttercup (_Ficaria Ficaria_), one of the crowfoot family, whose larger solitary satiny yellow flowers so commonly star European pastures, was Wordsworth's special delight--a tiny, turf-loving plant, about which much poetical association clusters.

THE INVITATION Come hither, my dear one, my choice one, and rare one, And let us be walking the meadows so fair, Where on pilewort and daisies the eye fondly gazes, And the wind plays so sweet in thy bonny brown hair.

How bright the odd daisies Peep under the stubbs! How bright pilewort blazes Where ruddled sheep rubs The old willow trunk by the side of the brook, Where soon for blue violets the children will look! By the cot green and mossy Feed sparrow and hen: On the ridge brown and glossy They cluck now and then.

And here in the pasture, all swarming with rushes, Is a cowslip as blooming and forward as Spring; And the pilewort like sunshine grows under the bushes, While the chaffinch there sitting is trying to sing; And the daisies are coming, called "stars of the earth," To bring to the schoolboy his Springtime of mirth.

Wordsworth pays it a beautiful compliment in saying that Oft alone in nooks remote _We meet it like a pleasant thought When such is wanted._ But though this poet dearly loved the daisy, in some moods of mind he seems to have loved the little celandine (common pilewort) even better.