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Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)

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This beautiful plant flowers in wet meadows and ditches and has two distinct aromas. The flowers have a sweet heady smell and the crushed foliage a sharper sent. It was used to sweeten mead (its original name was medesweet). It was also used to ease pain, calm fevers and mask unpleasent smells in Tudor times. The sap contains similar chemicals to an ingredient in asprin. It normally flowers June to August producing many white flowers with numerous stamens. This plant was found flowering in a roadside ditch in mid October 2005 near Stagsden Bedfordshire.

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13th Oct 2005 by Diane Earl

Subjects:
Biology, Science

Key Stages:
Foundation, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 4+

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plant flower wildlife

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