wild flower

wild flower (plural wild flowers)

1. Alternative form of wildflower.
   • 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 244:

     At Merstone, The line to Sandown branches to the left, descends the ½ mile at 1 in 70 of Redway bank, and runs along the valley of the little River Yar (not to be confused with the River Yar in the western part of the island), through low-lying pleasing countryside, covered in spring and summer with wild flowers, to Horringford, 1¾ miles from Merstone.

• “wild flower”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• wildfowler