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Asarabacca
Asarum europaeum
Asarum europaeum, commonly known as asarabacca, European wild ginger, hazelwort, and wild spikenard, is a species of wild ginger (unrelated to the rhizome spice ginger) with single axillary dull purple flowers, lying on the ground. It is widespread across Europe, ranging from southern Finland and northern Russia south to southern France, Italy and the Republic of Macedonia. It is also grown extensively outside of its range as an ornamental. It is sometimes harvested for use as...
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
On the Virtues of Herbs
Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung) · 1090 · p.88
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.39
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.43
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.154
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.44
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.85
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.42
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.136
The Dutch Herbarium or Herbal
Petrus Nylandt · 1670 · p.206
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.300
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 128901.