Translation of "herbe jaune " (French → English) :

dyer's weed [ dyer's rocket | weld | woold | yellowroot | wold | Reseda luteola ]

perforate Saint John's-wort | Saint John's wort | St. John's wort | SJW [Abbr.]

Strasbourg onion [ Strasburg onion | Flanders onion | Essex onion | Deptford onion ]

canary yellow

St. John's wort | common St. John's wort | common St. John's-wort | common St. Johnswort | touch and heal | balm-of-warrior | Klamath weed

Cocksfoot pollen

It blows all over. They have small fields over in Europe, and so people in the neighbouring field were suddenly turning up with this beautiful yellow weed that would not respond and could not be killed with Round Up.

When cut, the colour ranges from white for the ‘fresh’ cheese to more or less intense straw yellow for the ‘semi-mature’, ‘mature’ and ‘extra-mature’ versions; Aroma: persistent reminiscent of milk and wild cardoon, with scents of aromatic plants and yellow flowers; Taste: initially mild, with scents of milk and flowers and a note of cardoon; an aftertaste that is long and persistent with fresh green echoes; a slightly spicy end note, a characteristic which becomes more intense the longer the cheese has been matured, accompanied by tastiness and a slightly astringent quality in the ‘mature’ and ‘extra-mature’ cheeses.

Dough casing: pale yellow to pale grey or green or with green speckles if made with spinach or herbs.

Instead, the Minister of Agriculture flew over the fields, looked at the green weeds instead of yellow wheat, and flew home.