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Common Name: GOUTWEED, GROUND ELDER
Scientific Name: Aegopodium podagraria 'Variegata'
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Description:
  • Perennial
  • Ground cover with white marked leaves
  • Hardy.
  • Sun or shade.
  • Can grow in container
Culinary Uses:
  • Use young leaves in salads and soups and as a vegetable
Parts Used:
  • Roots and leaves are harvested in summer and used fresh or dried
Medicinal Uses. It is said that:
  • Mild sedative herb
  • Diuretic and anti-inflammatory – help arthritis and rheumatism
  • Relieve gout, sciatica (heupjig) and all aches and pains in the joints
  • Externally: Poultice / infusion – soothing compress for inflamed joints, hemorrhoids, burns, wounds and insect bites

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