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Munich, Germany: These lithographs are from an antique German book. Here you can see the plants which corresponding captions are in Latin and old German script.

Landscape and ground road whit sculpture

Mountain hill at Sorška planina covered with white alpine flowers blooming, apiaceae. Hills over the ski town Cerkno.

White Ligusticum scoticum aka Scots lovage or Scottish licorice root flowers

Heracleum maximum, Cow Parsnip or Indian Celery, is the only member of the genus Heracleum native to North America. Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve, Oakland, California. Apriaceae.

herbarium, an old sheet of paper with a pressed plant, Taraxacum officinale the dandelion

$High-Res Antique Flower Illustrations from William Curtis – Flora Londoniensis. Published from 1777-1798. (source: original Copies from my own Archive).\nCopyright has expired on this artwork. Digitally restored and optimized in Photoshop by myself.\nModern Nomenclature.$

Green fields, fantastic clouds and big mountains

Conium maculatum or poison hemlock white flowers blooming in spring

Giant Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) growing in nature.

$Medium to tall, rather bristly biennial; stem erect, purple or purple spotted. Leaves 2-3 pinnate, dark green, but eventually turning purple; leaflets oval, toothed. Flowers white, 2mm, in compound umbels which are nodding in bud, the petals hairless; bracts usually absent, bracteoles hairy. Fruit oblong, tapered towards the apex, 4-7mm, often purple.\nHabitat: Rough grassland, semi shaded places, on well drained soils, generally in low attitudes.\nFlowering Season: May-July.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe; absent from the Faeroes, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Spitsbergen.\n\nThis is a common Species in the Netherlands for the described Habitats.\nToxicity:\nChaerophyllum temulum contains (mainly in the upper parts and fruits) a volatile alkaloid chaerophylline, as well as other (probably glycosidally bound) toxins, the chemistry and pharmacology of which has, as yet, been but little studied. Externally, the sap of the plant can cause inflammation of the skin and persistent rashes. If consumed, the plant causes gastro-intestinal inflammation, drowsiness, vertigo and cardiac weakness. Human poisonings have seldom been observed, because the plant lacks aromatic essential oils that could lead to its being confused with edible umbellifers used to flavour food. It is, however, used occasionally in folk medicine. Animal poisonings by the plant are commoner than those of humans, pigs and cattle thus intoxicated exhibiting a staggering gait, unsteady stance, apathy and severe, exhausting colic, ending sometimes in death. \nHerbal medicine:\nChaerophyllum temulum has been used in folk medicine, in small doses, to treat arthritis, dropsy, and chronic skin complaints, and as a spring tonic. The early modern physician Boerhaave (1668–1738) once successfully used a decoction of the herb combined with Sarsaparilla to treat a woman suffering from leprosy – in the course of which treatment temporary blindness was a severe side effect following each dose (source Wikipedia).$

Plantain common (lat. Plantago major) with peduncles on a summer day

Umbrella-shaped florets of small white flowers. Awe-Inspiring Salt Mine Journey: Hallstatt's Scenic Treasures.

Flowering wild garlic (Allium ursinum) in a beech forest. It is a medicinal plant

The flowers of meadowsweet or filipendula ulmaria

$Medium to tall, rather robust, slightly hairy biennial or perennial, to 1.5m. Leaves dull green, 3-pinnate. Flowers white, 3-4mm, the umbels with 4-15 rays, without lower bracts. Fruit 7-10mm, short beaked, bristle at the base, brown or black when ripe.\nHabitat: Rough grassy places, generally at low altitudes.\nFlowering Season: April-June.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe, except the far North.\n\nVery common in the Netherlands; one of the earliest umbels to come into flower.$

The poisonous plant chaerophyllum temulum grows in the wild

Wild garlic flowering on the hills of Kolocep Island, Croatia.

Cyanotype print of flower and leaf Queen Anne's lace, Daucus carota. Le Roy, Illinois, USA.

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