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Motherwort

noun

Bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers. Synonym: Leonurus cardiaca.

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... barns and dwellings, and throng his garden and jostle and override each other in their strife to be near him! Some of them are so domestic and familiar, and so harmless withal, that one comes to regard them with positive affection. Motherwort, catnip, plantain, tansy, wild mustard,—what a homely human look they have! they are an integral part of every old homestead. Your smart new place will wait long before they draw near it. Our knot-grass, that carpets every ...

— A Year in the Fields • John Burroughs

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Words linked to "Motherwort" : herbaceous plant, herb, Leonurus, genus Leonurus, Leonurus cardiaca