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Posted 29 January 2007 - 08:11 AM

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Description: gray-green cinquefoil leaves, yellow star-shaped flowers, apricot scent, seedheads stick to clothes.Use: steep fresh leaves in water to make infusion, used as an external astringent to stop bleeding and for treating wounds.Infusion: Used to prepare more delicate parts of plants....

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Posted 30 January 2007 - 08:21 AM

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Description: Short lived perennial with a basal rosette of oval toothed leaves. Branched leaved stems grow up to 4 ft. Bears small yellow flowers in summer followed by black seeds. Uses: Leaves are used after repeatedly fermented and dried in a complicated sequence. Fermented leaves yield a ...

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Posted 31 January 2007 - 08:40 AM

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Description: Hairy perennial that grows in a dense leafy mound. Branching leafy stems grow up to 3 ft and bear light greenish gray heart shaped leaves. From summer to autumn bears persistent flowers that are white with mauve marking. Uses: Use leaves and flowering stems fresh or dried in th...

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 09:01 AM

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Description: Short plant with a rosette of large white backed rhubarb-like leaves atop strong vertical roots which grow up to 3 feet long. In the summer, thick and hairy stems growing up to 6 feet tall bear reddish purpleflowers, followed by seedheads with hooked spines that last all winter long. ...

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Posted 02 February 2007 - 09:30 AM

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Description: Perennial shrub or small tree that grows up to 13 ft with small hazel like leaves and ragged bright yellow flowers on the bare stems from autumn on. Uses: Barks and leaves and used for tinctures and flowering twigs are used for distillation. Traditionally a cooling wound he...

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Posted 02 February 2007 - 05:30 PM

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Description: Perennial herb with red downy stems that grows up to 12 in. Bears dandelion like flowers that open in early spring followed by sturdy long stemmed fragrant leaves around the base of the plant in late spring. Uses: Use flowers before fully open fresh or dried in the shade, leaves i...

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Posted 03 February 2007 - 09:42 AM

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Description: Clump forming perennial with tough woody roots and red branching stems that grow up to 2 ft. Bears gray-green ferny leaves and bright reddish brown petal less flowers in early summer.Uses: Use young leaves before flowering, whole green plant fresh or dried, and roots dug in sprin...

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Posted 04 February 2007 - 10:10 AM

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Description: Tough-rooted herbacious perinnial. Has white or pink blooms where the leaf bunches meet the stem with velvety stems and leaves.Uses: Use flowers, leaves and shoots. Also use roots dug up in winter dormancy after the plant has been established at least two years (used fresh or drie...

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 10:36 AM

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Description: Perennial herb with creeping roots and long slender gray leaves. Stems grow up to 2 ft and in the summer bear spikes of yellow flowers followed by black seeds. Uses: Use whole herb fresh or dried in the shade. Used in the middles ages as laundry starch. Used to treat diarrhea ...

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Posted 07 February 2007 - 11:16 AM

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Description: Bushy aromatic perennial with horizontal woody roots and reddish stems that grows up to 30 inches. Downy oval gray-green leaves and small clusters of tubular pink or mauve flowers in late summer. Uses: Use sprigs of leaves or flowers, or whole plant almost to the ground. Used a...

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Posted 09 February 2007 - 11:50 AM

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Description: Leafy perennial with clumps of thick and shiny arrow shaped leaves at base of plant. Bears loose spikes of red flowers on leafy flower stems that branch up to 4 ft. Uses: Use young leaves and buds picked before flowering used fresh or stored frozen, dig roots in summer and use f...

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Posted 11 February 2007 - 12:28 PM

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Description: Climbing evergreen plant that clings as it grows. Leaves are dark green and have 5 points. Stems are brown and woody. When stems grow to full length (up to 100ft) they will branch off with small oval shaped leaves followed by black berries in autumn. Uses: Use young leaves fresh...

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Posted 12 February 2007 - 12:46 PM

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Description: Perennial with mat like roots that are somewhat invasive. Square stems grow up to 3 ft with rough oval serrated leaves that are dark green or red tinted, and large heads of tubular red flowers in late summer. Uses: Use the leaves and flowers fresh or dried. Used as an anti-depr...

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Posted 13 February 2007 - 01:21 PM

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Description: Aromatic perennial evergreen shrub with square stems that are woody at the base and grow upright up to 12 in. Leaves are small, gray-green and elliptical. Bears small flowers in summer that are fragrant and white. Uses: Use leaves and flowering tips fresh or dried in the sun. ...

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Posted 14 February 2007 - 08:00 AM

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Description: perennial herb with creeping roots that grows like a bush up to 2 feet tall. Stems are square shaped and bearing gray oval toothy leaves that have a minty scent. Use: Leaves are used and can be gathered at any time and are best dried in a slow warm heat. Medieval physicians ...

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Posted 15 February 2007 - 08:06 AM

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Description: Perennial that is green and soft at first and grows into a woody shrub with light brown bark, up to 4 ft. Small pale pink flowers in bunches in summer and autumn.Uses: Use leaves fresh or dried and all green parts for oil distillation. Rose scented leaves are known for culinary ...

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Posted 16 February 2007 - 08:30 AM

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Description: 6 foot tall herb with reddish stems and long green leaves with white undersides. Also blooms reddish brown flowers in late summer. Uses: All parts of the plant may be used fresh or dried in the shade. One of the nine Saxon magic herbs. It is used in tea form to treat gastrit...

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Posted 17 February 2007 - 08:41 AM

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Description: Tough perennial with ridged stems andhairy dark green leaves. Grows up to 3 feet tall andsprouts spiky purple flowers in summer.Use: Whole plant used as a diuretic. Used inmedieval times as a wound salve, and also to soothesore throats and bleeding gums.Infusion: Use...

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Posted 18 February 2007 - 09:05 AM

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Description: Woody twining shrub climber, grows up to 20 feet with oval shaped glossy leaves. Clusters of fragrant flowers appear in summer followed by red berries.Uses: Use leaves or flowers fresh or dried in the shade, fresh bark from cuttings, and roots dug up in autumn and dried. Bruised...

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Posted 19 February 2007 - 09:31 AM

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Description: Mat forming succulent perennial shrub with sprawling stems and branches that grow erect up to 8 in and are crowded with small circular leaves that are hot and peppery to the taste. In midsummer leafy stems extend to bear bright yellow 5 petalled flowers in loose clusters. Uses: Us...

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