Meadow Sweet
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Description: Meadowsweet is a perennial herb, growing in damp meadows, ditches and bogs, at the edges of ponds, on river banks and in damp open woodland. Common throughot Europe, it is also be found in the eastern US and Canada as far west as Ohio. The creeping rootstock sends up a reddish, angular stem, up to 120cm tall, branched near the top and bearing alternate long-petioled leaves composed of two to five pairs of ovate, serrate leaflets which are widely tomentose beneath. The small, creamy-white five-petaled flowers with over twenty protruding stamens grow in panicled cymes from June to August.
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Translations: Meadow Γλυκό, Pieva Sweet, مرج الحلو, Lúka Sweet, Reine des prés, Creţuşcă, 메도우 스위트, Louka Sweet, מדו מתוק, Слатки ливада, 梅多斯威特, Sweet Meadow, Meadow मीठा, Pradera dulce, Медоєв Суіт, メドースウィート, Travnik Sweet, Медоу Суит, Pradera dolça, Ливада Сладки
