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Wild Teasel (Dipsacu...
A plant which grows in rough pasture, copses, by streams and by roads throughout the British Isles. Its stem is covered in spiney prickles. Its leaves form a cup with the stem and in this way the plant traps water in which insects sometimes drown. It is not known if the plant gains benefit from this...
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Wild Teasel (Dipsacu...
A plant which grows in rough pasture, copses, by streams and by roads throughout the British Isles. Its stem is covered in spiney prickles. Its leaves form a cup with the stem and in this way the plant traps water in which insects sometimes drown. It is not known if the plant gains benefit from this...
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Mugwort (Artemisia v...
A plant long associated with sorcery. It may look dull but from Anglo Saxon times was used to preserve youth and give protection from lightening and plague. On midsummers eve it was meant to produce a coal under its roots that would protect anyone who dug it up and kept it safe. It has also been ...
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Mugwort (Artemisia v...
A plant long associated with sorcery. It may look dull but from Anglo Saxon times was used to preserve youth and give protection from lightening and plague. On midsummers eve it was meant to produce a coal under its roots that would protect anyone who dug it up and kept it safe. It has also been use...
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Common Toadflax (Lin...
A plant with grey-green leaves and long yellow and orange flowers (30-80cm) that grows on grassland, arable land, wasteland and hedgerows. It gained its name because of its flax like leaves, the toad being added as it was thought of as useless and only suitable for toads. It flowers July - October. ...
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Common Toadflax (Lin...
A plant with grey-green leaves and long yellow and orange flowers (30-80cm) that grows on grassland, arable land, wasteland and hedgerows. It gained its name because of its flax like leaves, the toad being added as it was thought of as useless and only suitable for toads. It flowers July - October. ...
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Common Toadflax (Lin...
A plant with grey-green leaves and long yellow and orange flowers (30-80cm) that grows on grassland, arable land, wasteland and hedgerows. It gained its name because of its flax like leaves, the toad being added as it was thought of as useless and only suitable for toads. It flowers July - October. ...
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Common Toadflax (Lin...
A plant with grey-green leaves and long yellow and orange flowers (30-80cm) that grows on grassland, arable land, wasteland and hedgerows. It gained its name because of its flax like leaves, the toad being added as it was thought of as useless and only suitable for toads. It flowers July - October. ...
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Common Toadflax (Lin...
A plant with grey-green leaves and long yellow and orange flowers (30-80cm) that grows on grassland, arable land, wasteland and hedgerows. It gained its name because of its flax like leaves, the toad being added as it was thought of as useless and only suitable for toads. It flowers July - October. ...
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Fat Hen (Chenopodium...
A plant of the goosefoot family - a kind of wild spinach that grows on waste or disturbed ground. Its use as a food can be traced to the Bronze age. Pictured near Cople, Bedfordshire late September 2005.
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Curled Dock (Rumex c...
This plant grows in similar habitats (disturbed ground and agricultural land) as the nettle and its leaves have often been used by walkers to cure nettle stings. It was also used to dress burns and scolds in former times. It has deep roots and can be difficult to remove from gardens and fields. It w...
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Nettle-leaved Bellfl...
This plant has toothed leaves similar to those of the nettle. The stalked flowers grow singuarly or in twos or threes. The tubes of the flowers are bell shaped and hairy with a white style in the centre. The stem and leaves are also hairy as is the sepal tube. In the middle ages it was used to make ...
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Nettle-leaved Bellfl...
This plant has toothed leaves similar to those of the nettle. The stalked flowers grow singuarly or in twos or threes. The tubes of the flowers are bell shaped and hairy with a white style in the centre. The stem and leaves are also hairy as is the sepal tube. In the middle ages it was used to make ...
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Nettle-leaved Bellfl...
This plant has toothed leaves similar to those of the nettle. The stalked flowers grow singuarly or in twos or threes. The tubes of the flowers are bell shaped and hairy with a white style in the centre. The stem and leaves are also hairy as is the sepal tube. In the middle ages it was used to make ...
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Nettle-leaved Bellfl...
This plant has toothed leaves similar to those of the nettle. The stalked flowers grow singuarly or in twos or threes. The tubes of the flowers are bell shaped and hairy with a white style in the centre. The stem and leaves are also hairy as is the sepal tube. In the middle ages it was used to make ...
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Common Field Speedwe...
This plant has course toothed leaves hairy underneath. It has fairly long flower stalks and fresh green leaves. It can flowerr all year round and grows on agricultural land. The flowerr is bright blue with a lower white lip. Pictured at field edge near Stagsden Beds late September 2005.
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