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Achillea ageratum, also known as sweet yarrow, [2] sweet-Nancy, [3] English mace, [4] or sweet maudlin, [5] is a flowering plant in the sunflower family. it was originally native to Switzerland, before spreading across Europe (to Portugal, Spain, France, England, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Croatia and Romania), and Morocco.
Tagetes lucida - MHNT. Tagetes lucida is a perennial plant native to Mexico and Central America.It is used as a medicinal plant and as a culinary herb.The leaves have a tarragon-like scent, with hints of anise, and it has entered the nursery trade in North America as a tarragon substitute.
Glyceria fluitans (syns Festuca fluitans, Poa fluitans, Panicularia fluitans), known as floating sweet-grass [2] and water mannagrass, is a species of perennial grass in the genus Glyceria native to Europe, the Mediterranean region and Western Asia and occurring in wet areas such as ditches, riverbanks and ponds.
Food webs are limited representations of real ecosystems as they necessarily aggregate many species into trophic species, which are functional groups of species that have the same predators and prey in a food web. Ecologists use these simplifications in quantitative (or mathematical representation) models of trophic or consumer-resource systems ...
Culinary: used as a nutritionally minor flavoring component in foods or beverages Tea: brewed in hot water to make a beverage (for primarily culinary rather than medicinal or ritual purposes) Medicinal: used, either directly or as a simple extract such as a tea, to cause some physiological effect, usually to treat some ailment or disease
Detarium microcarpum has several other uses for rural communities, leaves being used to thatch roofs, seeds dried and made into necklaces or are ground and used as a fragrance (considered to have an aphrodisiac effect) and mosquito repellent prepared from the roots. [28] Leaves and roots are also used to treat farm animals. [29]
Mace tends to be a bit more expensive than nutmeg. (Nutmeg trees yield more nutmeg than they do mace.) Like nutmeg, mace is usually available in ground form at your local grocery store.
The plants typically have frilly leaves and are known colloquially as yarrows, although this common name usually refers to A. millefolium. The genus was named after the Greek mythological character Achilles , whose soldiers were said to have used yarrow to treat their wounds; [ 5 ] this is reflected by common names such as allheal and bloodwort .