Agrimony

My friend agrimony is thinking about med school, and is doing some information gathering. ❋ Agrimony (2007)

Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Odd then, that the hemp agrimony behind should stand tall and unbending. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A few swallows swoop low and the rank green is broken by pink hemp agrimony, cream meadowsweet, blue tufted vetch and purple knapweed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hemp agrimony, bird's-foot trefoil and knapweed attracted the attention of commas, common blues, red admirals and the only painted ladies we've encountered so far this year. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I believe I have meals scheduled with agrimony, bryant and michele_blue, and arcaedia and possibly mcurry, who claimed there would be sad faces if not. ❋ Agrimony (2007)

Given that aberdeen, whose media tastes largely coincide with mine, adores it, and that agrimony squees happily over it, this was a fairly safe bet. ❋ Salymander (2006)

And seeing them there among the grass and springing agrimony, it suddenly occurred to him that both pairs were exceedingly ugly to see. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

I began pounding wormwood and agrimony in my mortar, meanwhile wondering where the bloody hell the thing had come from. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)

The figure and shape of the leaves thereof is not much different from that of those of the ash-tree, or of agrimony; the herb itself being so like the Eupatorian plant that many skilful herbalists have called it the Domestic Eupator, and the Eupator the Wild ❋ Unknown (2002)

He worked as swiftly as he could, elevating her feet, packing the place from which the blood was issuing with clean cloths, and giving her a draught of dried yarrow and agrimony, again mixed with wine. ❋ George, Margaret (1987)

Tonight was no exception, and the shuffling master of the island, wearing a paper cap Willie had clapped on him, and belching from the ale, set before her a springtime meal: roast lamb, spinach tart, baked butter pudding, and an astringent drink called "spring tonic": fresh green leaves of agrimony and the juice of wild cresses, blended in new ale. ❋ George, Margaret (1987)

Fennil-roots, colts foot, agrimony, betony, large mace, white sander slic't in thin slices the weight of six pence, made with a chicken and a crust of manchet, take it morning and evening. ❋ Robert May (N/A)

Is not ---- 's last novel a better antidote against melancholy, stupendously absurd as it is, than foalfoot or plantain, featherfew or savin, agrimony or saxifrage, or any other herb in old Robert Burton's pharmacopoeia? ❋ Various (N/A)

As Ishmael went along he picked a large bunch of the wayside flowers as an offering to Phoebe -- purple knapweed and betony, the plumy dead-pink heads of hemp-agrimony, and tufts of strong yellow fleabane, all squeezed together in his hot little hand. ❋ F. Tennyson Jesse (N/A)

Down by the water's edge there were coarse clumps of comfrey and fig-wort, hemp agrimony and giant dock; on the banks, a tangle of vetch and convolvulus, moon-daisies, yarrow, and bedstraw; while from higher up still came the heavy, heady sweetness of elder flowers. ❋ Unknown (1939)

The old herbalists were wise in their simplicity in the making of marigold potions, medicaments of herbs, soothing unguents from melilot and musk-mallow, elecampane and agrimony, pillows for the sick from rosemary and basil, beech-leaf mattresses for the weary – for these things cleanse the whole being. ❋ Unknown (1917)