Habitat:
Blooms:
Height:
Feature:
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Wet
places, marshes, bogs.
June-September.
70-120 cms.
Meadowsweet is so-called because
it grows in meadows and smells sweet! It was once used to
flavour mede, which is why it was once called "mede-sweete".
It contains chemicals similar to those in aspirin and in
medieval times it was used in much the same way as aspirin
is today.
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