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scurvy-grass
ˈscurvy-grass Bot. Forms: see scurvy n.; also scruby-grass. 1. A cruciferous plant, Cochlearia officinalis, believed to possess anti-scorbutic properties.a 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxxii. 323 Round leafed Scuruie grasse is a low or base herbe. 1611 Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girl F 2 b, Would any hu...
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Appleby Fells
Forbs here include typical limestone species such as wild thyme, mountain pansy, mossy saxifrage, moonwort, limestone bedstraw, alpine scurvy-grass, alpine , lesser meadow rue and the uncommon Pyrenean scurvy-grass.
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scurvy
▪ I. scurvy, n. (ˈskɜːvɪ) Forms: α. 6 skurvie, 6–7 scurvie, 7 skirvye, 7–8 scurvey, 6– scurvy; β. 6 scurby, skyrby, scorbie, 7 scorby. [Subst. use of scurvy a. (cf. scurvy disease under sense 1 of the adj.); the specific sense was determined by the use of the word to render the like-sounding F. scor...
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Cochlearia officinalis
Cochlearia officinalis, common scurvygrass, scurvy-grass, or spoonwort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. Taxonomy
It is commonly known as 'common scurvy-grass', 'scurvy-grass' and 'spoonwort'.
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C. fenestrata
found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea
Clidemia fenestrata, a plant species in the genus Clidemia
Cochlearia fenestrata, the Arctic scurvy-grass
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cochlearin
cochlearin Chem. (kɒkliːˈɛərɪn) [f. Cochlear-ia (officinalis) scurvy-grass + -in.] A crystalline substance obtained from Scurvy-grass.1863–72 Watts Dict. Chem. I. 1062 Scurvy-grass camphor or Cochlearin.
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Commelina ensifolia
Commelina ensifolia, commonly known as scurvy weed, scurvy grass or wandering Jew, is an annual herb native to Australia, India, and Sri Lanka. European settlers also ate the plant to prevent scurvy, giving rise the common name of scurvy grass.
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Veronica beccabunga
Medicinal usage
Brooklime was one of three traditional antiscorbutic herbs (alongside scurvy grass and watercress), used in purported remedies for scurvy vitamin C and the usual preparation by extracting of juices would have destroyed most of their content, rendering the preparations ineffectual against true scurvy
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Lepidium oleraceum
Its English common name is Cook's scurvy grass; Māori names include nau, ngau, naunau and heketara. Historian John Cawte Beaglehole believed that "scurvy grass" in this case referred to Lepidium oleraceum.
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Portencross
Species recorded included sea arrowgrass (Triglochin maritima); sea sandwort (Honkenya peploides); scurvy-grass (Cochlearia officinalis); common orache
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Sorrel (disambiguation)
, family of plants known as the woodsorrel family
Oxalis, largest genus in the Oxalidaceae, known as woodsorrels, particularly:
Oxalis enneaphylla, scurvy-grass
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Burnfoot River Shingle and Wydon Nabb
Common across the site are alpine penny-cress (Noccaea caerulescens), spring sandwort (Minuartia verna), common scurvy-grass (Cochlearia officinalis agg Parts of the shingle with more moderate toxicity support short grasses such as sheep’s fescue (Festuca ovina), or taller grasses including false oat-grass
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Cochlearia tatrae
Cochlearia tatrae, the Tatra scurvy-grass, is a flowering plant of the genus Cochlearia in the family Brassicaceae.
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Cochlearia groenlandica
Cochlearia groenlandica, known in English as Danish scurvygrass or Greenland scurvy-grass, is a flowering plant of the genus Cochlearia in the family Brassicaceae
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Wyre Estuary Country Park
wildflowers have been observed:
Bee orchid
Birdsfoot trefoil
Bluebells
Comfrey
Frosted orache
Glasswort
Herb Robert
Northern marsh orchid
Ramsons
Red campion
Scurvy-grass
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