Plant Description:

• Grows up to 30 cm high
• Leaves resemble feathers
• Many white flower heads look like umbrellas
• Widespread in moist meadows, woods and openings
• Fossil finds show this plant has been used for medicinal purposes for 60,000 years
• Can be made into a tea to cool burns and ease earaches; used to relieve aches and pains, purifies the blood, relieves colds and fevers, and can be a rinse for sore eyes, pimples and mosquito bites
• Found at Stops 1 through 11

 

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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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