† archaic  ♡ adored   → origin  ☾ known as   

  • angelica —tall aromatic plant of parsley family, with large leaves and yellowish-green flowers
    • of herba angelica (early 16th cent) → “angelic herb” so named because it was believed to be ward off illness or disease
  • catkins —a spike of unisexual, apetalous flowers having scaly, usually deciduous bracts, as of a willow or hazel
    • of katteken → “little cat” (from obsolete dutch) †
  • orrisroot —(iris germanica florentina) the fragrant rootstock of the iris, used in perfumery and medicine
  • rhizome —a horizontally growing underground plant
    • of rhizoûn → to fix firmly, take root ☾creeping rootstalk
  • yarrow —eurasian plant of the daisy family with feathery leaves and heads of small white, pink or yellow aromatic flowers ☾ milfoil
  • holmberry —the scarlet berry of butcher's broom ☾ butcher's broom or sweet broom ♡
  • vetch —a scrambling herbaceous plant of the pea family
  • haulm —stalk or stem esp. of peas or potatoes
  • bladdernut —shrub or small tree that bears little white flowers; found in poland and highly coveted for its magical power; the fruit of comes in inflated, bladder-like
  • bellflower —plant with delicate, bell-shaped blossoms of white, violet or blue; (of genus campanula, latin for campana → “bell”) genus campanula
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