SC - Betony
Chris Stanifer
jugglethis at yahoo.com
Tue May 1 09:07:28 PDT 2001
What you want for European recipes is probably Stachys officinalis also
called woundwort. The term betony is applied to several plants in the genus
Stachys, but primarily S. officinalis.
Bear
> ariann at nmia.com
> writes:
>
> << From a tertiary source, betony is described in a period
> Southern Wales
> medical book: >>
>
> Which is why I was wondering what specific species of plant you were
> referring to. Pedicularis canadensis, which is now known as
> wood betony, is a
> New World plant. Apparently the sources you site are using
> the common name
> 'wood betony' to refer to an entirely different species of plant.
>
> Ras
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