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The knowledge of some common plants

Since many people don't know most of the plants around them, this is information on some plants that are commonly seen in many places throughout the world

  • This is Lamium purpureum, also called Purple Deadnettle.
  • It's called deadnettle because it looks like a nettle but it doesn't sting you
  • This plant is a winter annual—it grows its leaves in the fall, lasts through the winter, and blooms and dies in the spring
  • Its pollen is reddish orange. If you see bees with their heads stained reddish orange, it is likely because they have visited Purple Deadnettle
  • This is Trifolium repens, white clover
  • It is a legume (belongs to the bean family) and fixes nitrogen using symbiosis with bacteria that live in little nodules on its roots, fertilizing the soil
  • It is a good companion plant for the other members of a lawn or garden since it is tough, adaptable, and improves soil quality. According to my professor it used to be in lawn mixes, until chemical companies wanted to sell a new herbicide that would kill broadleaved plants and spare grass, and it was slandered as a weed :(
  • It is native only to Europe and Central Asia, but in the lawns they are doing more good than harm most places
  • Honeybees love to visit clover
  • Four-leaf clovers are said to be lucky
  • This is Achillea millefolium, Common Yarrow
  • It has had a relationship with humans since Neanderthals were around, at least 60,000 years, since Neanderthals have been found buried with Yarrow
  • Its leaves have been used to stop bleeding throughout history, and its scientific name comes from how Achilles was said to have used Yarrow to stop the blood from the wounds of his soldiers. A leaf rolled into a ball has been used to stop nosebleeds
  • It is a native species all throughout Eurasia and North America
  • This is Cichorium intybus, known as Chicory
  • The leaves look a lot like dandelion leaves, until in mid-spring when it begins growing a woody green stem straight up into the air
  • Like many other weeds, it has a symbiotic relationship with humans, existing in a mix of domesticated or partially domesticated and wild populations
  • It is native to Eurasia, but widespread in North America on roadsides and disturbed places, where it descended from cultivated plants
  • Its root contains large amounts of inulin, which is used as a sweetener and fiber supplement (if you look at the ingredients on the granola bars that have extra fiber, they usually are partly made of chicory root) and has also been used as a coffee substitute
  • A large variety of bees like to feed upon it
  • This is Phytolacca americana, known as Pokeweed
  • It is easily identified by its huge leaves and its waxy, bright magenta stem
  • It can grow more than nine feet tall from a sprout in a single summer!
  • If you squish the berries, the juice inside is a shocking magenta that is so bright it almost burns your eyes. For this reason many Native American people used it for pink and purple dye.
  • It is a heavy metal hyperaccumulator, particularly good for removing cadmium from the soil
  • All parts of the plant are poisonous and will make you very sick if you eat them, however if the leaves are picked when very young and boiled 3 times, changing out the water each time, they can be eaten, and this is a traditional food in the rural American Southeast, but I don't want to chance it
  • British people have introduced it as a pretty, exotic ornamental plant. I think that is very funny considering that here it is a weed associated with places where poor people live, but maybe they're right and I need to look closer to see the beauty.
  • If you see magenta stains in bird poop it is because they ate pokeweed berries- birds can safely eat the berries whereas humans cannot
  • This is Plantago lanceolata, Ribwort Plantain
  • It grows in heavily disturbed soils, in fact it is considered an indicator of agricultural activity. It is successful in the poorest, heaviest and most compacted soil.
  • The leaves, seeds, and flower heads are said to be edible but the leaves are really stringy unless they are very young. Of course, it is important to be careful when eating wild plants, and make sure you have identified the plant correctly and the soil is not contaminated
  • I have also heard the strings in the leaves can be extracted and used for textile purposes

and that's some common plants you might often see throughout the world

#purple deadnettle is also a variety of mint!!#you can use or eat it just like mint!#I’ve even dried and smoked it in other herb mixes#the flavor is wonderful actually sharp and earthy
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SEMIFINALS - MATCH 2 OUT OF 2

Causes of Death & Propaganda Under the Cut:

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I'm going to vote for any woman in a Joss Whedon property because if a Whedon woman doesn't win this tournament then what's even the point, but specifically here I think it's worth emphasizing how cruelly Whedon treated the live human woman who played the character in question: after Charisma finally reached him to tell him she was pregnant (other sources corroborate she worked hard to get the news to him ASAP, while he refused her calls), he asked her if she was going to "keep it," berated her for apparently ruining his plans for the show, and then wrote in a subplot where her character slept with someone's teenage son and got pregnant with a demon baby which caused her character to go into a coma after the birth-- during the shooting of which he forced her to work in heels and during hours her doctor had not recommended as well as calling her fat.

After all that, they wanted Charisma to come back as Cordelia for the 100th episode special. She agreed, with the stipulation that her character not be killed off. The team agreed, she signed on, and when she got the script she found out they were killing off Cordelia anyway. This is not how Whedon&co. treat male cast members. And it took years for any kind of mainstream media to take it seriously!

Joss Whedon is a misogynist so extreme it took me two paragraphs to type out some of his mistreatment of one woman on the set of his supposedly exceptionally feminist show. I think his characters should win any misogynist-treatment bracket.

#cordelia chase#angel the series#I haven’t gotten to these episodes yet but when I do I’m gonna kms
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