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Meadowsweet
Filipendula ulmaria
52.3301, 0.378618
Field Notes
Description:
1/2 meter tall plants, with the cloud shaped flower heads made up of smaller flower heads in white. The stems have a red tinge to them.
Habitat:
There were many of these plants growing in ditches, edging agricultural fields.
Notes:
The Meadowsweet was once used to sweeten honey wine. During the first half of the 19th Century, salicin, a substance that acts as an antidote for colds, was extracted from the plants.
The commercial name for aspirin, is said to have come about from the old scientific name `Spiraea ulmaria` for Meadowsweet.
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Filipendula ulmaria
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PublishedJune 15, 2011
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