Agrimonia eupatoria

Agrimonia eupatoria
Common agrimony
Agrimonia eupatoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Agrimonia
Species: A. eupatoria
Binomial name
Agrimonia eupatoria
L.

Agrimonia eupatoria is a species of agrimony that is often referred to as common agrimony, church steeples or sticklewort.

The whole plant is dark green with numerous soft hairs. The soft hairs aid in the plant's seed pods sticking to any animal or person coming in contact with the plant. The flower spikes have a spicy odor like apricots.

A. eupatoria is a foodplant for the caterpillars of the snout moth Endotricha flammealis.

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Description

Agrimonia eupatoria flower from June to September

Vegetative characteristics

The common agrimony grows as a deciduous, perennial herbaceous plant and reached heights of up to 100 centimeters. Its roots are deep rhizomes , from which spring the stems. It is characterized by its typical serrated edged pinnate leaves. [1]

Generative characteristics

The short-stemmed flowers appear from June to September , in long, spike-like, racemose inflorescences. The single flower has an urn-shaped curved flower cup , the upper edge has several rows of soft, curved hook-shaped bristles, 1 to 4 millimeters long. The hermaphrodite flower has fivefold radial symmetry. There are five sepals present . There are five yellow, rounded petals.[1] The petals and the five to 20 stamens rise above the tip of the flower cup . The two medium-sized carpels in the flower cups are sunk into, but not fused with it . The flowers with their abundant pollen supply attract hoverflies , flies and honey bees. The pollinated flowers develop fruits with burs . These attach to passing grazing animals such as cattle , sheep and deer and are spread over a large area.[1]

In folklore

Agrimony has been stated to have medical and magical properties since the time of Pliny the elder. It is ruled astrologically by Cancer, according to Nicholas Culpeper. Common folklore held that it could cure musket wounds, and ward off witchcraft.

Traditional herbal medicine

The 9th-century text Bald's Leechbook advised the use of Agrimony as a cure for male impotence - saying it should be boiled in milk, and that it could excite a man who was "insufficiently virile;" it also states that when boiled in Welsh beer it would have the opposite effect.[2]

A. gryposepala, the plant's North American relative, also has traditional medical uses.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Grieve, Mrs M.. "Agrimony". A Modern Herbal. Botanical.com. http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/a/agrim015.html. Retrieved 2011-06-23. 
  2. ^ Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger August:The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium Little, Brown, 2000 ISBN 0-316-51157-9

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