#plantidentification — Public Fediverse posts

#Calendula is an excellent addition to any food or pollinators gardens. It's an amazing multi-purposeful annual plant that is easy to grow. It is #edible, #medicinal & is also a fave flower choice for #NaturalDye makers 😊
It's sometimes called poor man's saffron as it can be substituted for saffron in #culinary recipes. Most British folks call it pot's gold because it's used in broths/soups.

Learn more about how to grow, harvest & use calendula:
https://gardentherapy.ca/grow-calendula/

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Did you know that despite its name - #JapaneseAnemone - that this pretty #perennial #plant isn't actually from Japan?
It was introduced there, hundreds of years ago & became naturalized. It is actually native to China, #Taiwan & #Vietnam.
It's been cultivated in gardens, worldwide.

Hundreds of years ago, a form of E. hupehensis with smaller, semi-double flowers & pink sepals escaped cultivation and spread across #China to #Japan & #Korea. After finding this form in a #Shanghai graveyard in 1843, the plant explorer/ #botanist Robert Fortune sent it home to England where it became known as E. japonica, the Japanese anemone. European #horticulturists crossed the Japanese anemone with E. vitifolia to produce #cultivars of the artificial hybrid E. × hybrida.

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#Marjoram flowers, going to seed.

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#HollyhockMallow aka #GreaterMuskMallow flowers.

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#HealAll - #PrunellaVulgaris
#WhiteClover - #TrifoliumRepens

Both are #edible & #medicinal #plants. Both are much better than lawn grass. They attract a lot of #pollinators🐝 👍🐝

Heal all is used in a lot of #ChineseTraditionalMedicine & #Chinese #HerbalTeas. Wong Lo Kat is a commercial canned herbal tea with heal all as a main ingredient.

In North America, the #Nlakapamuk #Salishan #Indigenous peoples make cold infused, refreshing drinks with them. Several other #FirstNations in #BritishColumbia & #PacificNorthwest areas also harvested it for medicinal uses.

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Field #bindweed flowers by the seaside.
From far away, I thought they were small field daisies but on closer look, it's bindweed.

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#BlackHawthorn #buds & #flowers & some #lichen on #hawthorn branch.

Native to East/Central Europe & cultivated globally. Cold hardy & drought tolerant. A good #deciduous #tree for #ClimateAction #horticulture.

An #aromatic, #edible & #medicinal tree. Fruits can be eaten raw or cooked. Used in #Serbian #TraditionalMedicine as #HeartTonics & #CirculationSystem balancers - esp #angina.

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