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betonica officinalis pedicularis canadensis AKA Bishopswort Wood Betony PART USED Herb HABITAT It is a pretty woodland plant, met with frequently throughout England, but by no means common in Scotland. Though generally growing in woods and copses, it is occasionally to be found in more open situations, and amongst the tangled growths on heaths and moors. There are five species of Stachys growing wild in this country - the once much - valued Betony (S. Betonica); the Marsh Stachys, or Clown's Woundwort (S. palustris); the true Woundwort (S. Germanica), a doubtful native, occurring occasionally on limestone soils in England, but very common on the Continent, where the dense covering of its leaves was at one time in rustic surgery employed in the place of lint for dressing wounds, the low-creeping Field Stachys (S. arvensis); and the Hedge Stachys, or Hedge Woundwort (S. sylvatica), perhaps the commonest of them all. ACTIONS ASTROLOGY CONDITIONS CULTIVATION DESCRIPTTION HISTORY LORE MAGICAL PROPERTIES SOURCE(S) |
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