plant description
- General - height 30-50 cm, plant covered in stinging
hairs that cause skin irritation (Yellow Dock can be used to reduce irritation)
- Leaves - hairy all over, dark green, sharply toothed,
opposite and growing cross-wise from each other
- Flowers - tiny, green, hang in dense clusters (female)
or flower spikes (male), appear in summer
parts used
harvest
- whole plants for medicinal use are cut as flowering
begins in summer and dried, for culinary use pick young leaf tips in early
spring from plants less than 10 cm high
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