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Your blogs are fascinating! So many different things I know nothing about. And the flower is quite beautiful.
Thank you, ladypit -- it's not that I already know about these flowers, you know. It's that I've found them on our property and want to know what they are myself! We're trying to restore a bit of flood plain to native prairie -- so we've a lot to learn.
Wow! This is very interesting. Thanks for the web site.
I like Sls's post because they make me sound soooooo smart when I repeat what I learn here!
Very pretty and a lot of information to go along with it.
Right now is wildflower season here. However the main flowering will be finished in just a few short weeks. Our seasonal burst is amazing, but short lived. An adaptation by plants that ensureed their survival in hot weather conditions.
Susan always provides wonderful details and sites to back this up. I agree that we have lost so much indigenous medicinal information, merely because we were to arrogant to listen.
Right now is wildflower season here. However the main flowering will be finished in just a few short weeks. Our seasonal burst is amazing, but short lived. An adaptation by plants that ensureed their survival in hot weather conditions.
Susan always provides wonderful details and sites to back this up. I agree that we have lost so much indigenous medicinal information, merely because we were to arrogant to listen.
If only I could remember everything I read here, Mary, then I might sound smart too!
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Here's a photo of Culvers Root, Veronicastrum virginicum of the Snapdragon family taken in our woods. www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/culverx.htm Culver's Root occurs throughout Illinois. The surname 'Culver' probably refers to a pioneer physician who advocated the use of this plant for the treatment of various ailments.
Which I find interesting. Our own history books have under reported the knowledge and use of Native Americans' herbal remedies.
According to www.drugs.com/npp/culver-s-root.html the first documented use of culver's root was when Puritan leader Cotton Mather requested it as a remedy for his daughter's tuberculosis in 1716. Culver's root was used by early physicians as a powerful laxative and emetic. Native American tribes also used the plant and drank tea preparations to induce vomiting and to help cleanse the blood. Herbalists have used culver's root for its ability to increase the flow of bile from the liver.