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Field Eryngo
Eryngium campestre
43.5025, 18.7847
Field Notes
Description:
Medicinal plant, around 40 cm high, spiky and thorny leaves growing like a sphere.
Habitat:
Mixed forest, grassland
Notes:
Used in herbalism as an infusion to treat coughs, whooping cough and urinary infections. Roots were formerly candied as sweets or boiled and roasted as a vegetable. Active constituents: Essential oils, saponins, tannins.
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PublishedDecember 6, 2019
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