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If you lived in nineteenth-century #Somerset and #Devon you might call this plant Limperscrimp and its green hollow stems Wippul-squip; if you were in #Cumberland they were known as Cat-haw-blows. In #Warwickshire the seeds, which have a vaguely cardamom flavour, were called Devil’s oatmeal. You might know Heraclium sphondylium as Cow-parsnip or Hog-weed. #Dialect #Local #Names #WildFlowers #Flora #Foraging
@Richard Jones In German this is called "Wiesenbärenklau" or just "Bärenklau", the slavic word for it is "Barszcz" and relates to "Borschtsch", which is an Eastern (Central) European soup of red beeds, cabbage (white here) and - originally in medieval times - Hogweed. Edible (nontoxic) when young, and it grows all over the place here. Seeds are aromatic. White skinned animals and humans should be careful, for unripe fruit contain a lot of furocoumarin, causing hypersensitivity of UV. Thank you for the hint*
@rlcj These grow invasively in BC, Canada.