LABIATE 



England as an application to the wounds received by 

 rustic labourers as its popular names bear testimony- 

 Carpenter's-weed, Heal-all, and Sicklewort. 



LABIATE MINT FAMILY 



Leonurus cardiaca, L. 



Pale lilac Motherwart, 



Lioris-tail, 



June-September Lion's-ear, 



Throwwort. 



Leonurus: from Greek for a lion's tail. 

 Cardiaca: from Greek for a heart. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: gardens and around dwellings. 



THE PLANT: erect, two feet to five feet tall; the stem 

 rather stout, with very fine hairs, square, usually branched; 

 the branches somewhat erect. 



THE LEAVES: opposite; ear-shaped or wedge-shaped or 

 tending to lanceolate; membraneous; acuminate at the 

 apex; with stems of varying length, at least slender; the 

 margins variable, the lower leaves palmately three- to 

 five-divided, the lobes cut or toothed, the upper three 

 divided or merely three-toothed. 



THE FLOWERS: numerous, clustered, tube-shaped, with a 

 ring of hairs within, densely white- woolly without; the 

 lower lip mottled. 



THE FRUIT: nutlets. 



An upright and rather decorative plant, without any 

 particular mint odour. It grows in waste places and about 

 dwellings and is easily recognized by its deeply cut leaves 

 and tiny pale lilac flowers encircling the plant stem at the 

 point of junction with the leaves. 



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