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Buckbean - MENTRI
Menyanthes trifoliata


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The brilliant white flowers light up a bog garden in the early spring. The three fleshy leaves also add interest to a mucky or peaty wetland.

Colour: White Blooms: May-June Height (cm): 15-40
Sun: Full Soil: Loam Moisture: Wet

Other traits: Herbal, Medicinal, Edible, Buckbean has astringent properties and has been used as a dried leaf or root tea for skin conditions, fever, rheumatism, worms, to stop bleeding and as a digestive tonic. Caution; fresh plant causes vomiting. Buckbeans rootstocks can be boiled as a cooked vegetable or dried and ground into a flour which apparently isn't that tasty but is nutritious.
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