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Wild Parsnip, Archangel
Named for the Latin word for angel, this was once prized for its angelic healing properties. Today it provides a different kind of tonic.
Garden angelica, wild parsnip, wild celery, Norwegian angelica
Angelica archangelica
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[ ] ---Medicinal Action and Uses---Culpepper wrote: 'The wild Parsnip differeth little from the garden, but groweth not so fair and large, nor hath so many leaves, and the root is shorter, more woody and not so fit to be eaten and, therefore, ...
Common name Archangel, European or garden angelica, Wild parsnip
Archangel has been valued traditionally as a healing plant. Some authorities suggest that its "angelic" healing powers are the origin of the common name.
Note, however, that the feral or wild parsnip, although the same species, is not quite the same as the cultivated form. Wild parsnips have smaller, less flavorful rootstocks than those grown for food.
Yellow pimpernel can be distinguished from similar plants (such as golden alexanders and wild parsnip) by the smooth-edged leaves -- the other plants have toothed leaves. Yellow pimpernel is an endangered species in Connecticut ...
Roots may be mistaken for wild parsnip or artichoke and humans have been killed after only one or two bites of what they thought were "parsnips" (water hemlock root resembles a parsnip).
Wild Azalea, Wild Basil, Wild Cabbage, Wild Candytuft, Wild Carrot, Wild Celery, Wild Cherry or Gean, Wild Clary, Wild Cotoneaster, Wild Daffodil, Wild Liquorice, Wild Lupin, Wild Madder, Wild Mignonette, Wild Oat, Wild Pansy, Wild Parsnip, Wild Pink, ...
wild parsnip Pastinaca sativa
wild peppergrass Lepidium virginicum
wild taro; dasheen; kalo; eddo Colocasia esculenta
wineberry Rubus phoenicolasius
winged burning bush; wahoo; winged euonymus; winged spindle-tree Euonymus alata ...
 See also: Parsnip, Angelica, Archangel, Celery, Pepper
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