Plant Description:

• Grows to 30 cm tall, with a hairy stem and dissected basal leaves
• Each flower stem is encircled by leaves and has a white flower at the end
• Occurs in large patches in open-forests and moist places
• Roots and leaves used in healing compresses, in teas for washes to stop nosebleeds, for treating wounds, and for curing the twitching of crossed-eyes
• May contain some corrosive irritants
• Found at Stop 1 - on the Intrepretive Nature Trail and Stop 12

 

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-Sourced from Budd's Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, 1979 and
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, 1995.
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