Nature Notes from the Strathcona Wilderness Institute at Paradise Meadows & Buttle Lake, Strathcona Provincial Park
Friday, January 20, 2012
Botany Class 15
A couple of louseworts: 'wort' means 'plant' in old English. Any species of Pedicularis, a genus of perennial herbs, are louseworts. They were said to make sheep that fed on them lousy.
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