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Apiaceae Aegopodium podagraria variegata

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Type	Categories	Useful Parts
Herb

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Apiaceae Family

Aegopodium Genus

Other Names for this Plant

Bishop's Weed, Goutweed, Bishop’s Goutweed, Ground Elder

Location

Native to most of Europe

Physical Description

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An aggressive ground cover that will quickly brighten a partly shady to shady area, variegated goutweed's compound white-edged leaves are gently toothed. It bears inconspicous white blooms in early summer

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Apiaceae

Apiales

Api Order (Carrot)

Euasterids II

Real Stars Group Two

Asteridae

Class of Stars (Daisies)

Core Eudicots

Main, Real, Two First-Leaves (Dicots)

Eudicots

Real, Two First-Leaves (Dicots)

Mesangiospermae

Half Capsule Seed Division

Magnolia Division

Seed Plants

Real Land Plants

Multiple Spore Sub-Kingdom

Stomatophytes

Air Pores Sub-Kingdom

Embryophytes

Multicellular Land Plants

Streptobionta

Multicellular Plants

Plantae

Plants

Eukaryota

Cells with a Nucleus

General Information

Medicinal Uses: Ground Elder has a long history of medicinal use and was cultivated as a food crop and medicinal herb in the Middle Ages. The plant was used mainly as a food that could counteract gout, one of the effects of the rich foods eaten by monks, bishops etc at this time. The plant is little used in modern Herbalism. All parts of the plant are antirheumatic, diuretic, sedative, and vulnerary. An infusion is used in the treatment of rheumatism, arthritis and disorders of the bladder and intestines. Externally, it is used as a poultice on burns, stings, wounds, painful joints etc

Food Uses: Leaves - raw or cooked. An unusual tangy flavor, the majority of people we give it to do not like it although some reports say that it makes a delicious vegetable

Note: This plant is considered an aggresive weedy in many places:

Connecticut: Listed as Invasive, Banned

Massachusetts: Listed as Prohibited

Vermont: Listed as Class B Noxious weed

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