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Geranium robertinium (Herb Robert)

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Wound salve of the Caledonii -used also for inflamed gums and peptic ulcers.

Associated with Robin Goodfellow a medieval English household sprite (and also inhabitant of woodland glades) hence it is also Herb Robin.Its reputation as a healing plant is mostly confined to modern Scotland.

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Is that related to other forms of Geranium? Or is Geranium simply a word meaning "Herb"?

 

The Geraniums are a very large and diverse family-geranium comes from a latin root word meaning crane-so unsurprisingly cranesbill herb is...a geranium !

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