epithymum

Updated: May 8, 2025

Their petticoats, for instance, were composed of the fox-glove, a flower in demand among Irish fairies for their gloves, and in some parts of that country for their caps, where it is nicknamed "Lusmore," while the Cuscuta epithymum is known in Jersey as "fairies' hair."

T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer - The Folk-lore of Plants