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Meadowsweet
Filipendula ulmaria
Filipendula ulmaria, commonly known as meadowsweet or mead wort, is a perennial herb in the family Rosaceae that grows in damp meadows. It is native throughout most of Europe and Western Asia (Near east and Middle east). It has been introduced and naturalised in North America.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries

History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.775

A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.66

Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.77

History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.704

History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.574

The Dutch Herbarium or Herbal
Petrus Nylandt · 1670 · p.158

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.115
In the stacks
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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 63134.