Legend has it, that Queen Anne was knitting a flowery lace coverlet and pricked her finger. The knitting became actual flowers. Several spatters of blood fell and that’s why the centers of some flowers are colored.The lovely flowers appear in May continue throughout the spring, summer, and early fall.
Harvested flowers can be used in salads, battered and fried, or used fresh or dried in bouquets, sachets, weddings, and floral arrangements. The flowers can be dyed any color (like carnations). They are also used by hand spinners and weavers as a natural dye for cloth, producing a darker yellow to mild orange dye.
Harvested flowers can be used in salads, battered and fried, or used fresh or dried in bouquets, sachets, weddings, and floral arrangements. The flowers can be dyed any color (like carnations). They are also used by hand spinners and weavers as a natural dye for cloth, producing a darker yellow to mild orange dye.
Several species of insects and caterpillars eat the leaves and drink the nectar of the plant. These include the Eastern Black Swallowtail butterfly, the Viceroy butterfly, the honey and bumble bee, and green lacewings.
The appearance and flowers look an awful lot like water hemlock, which is one of the deadliest plants around. The two plants often grow next to each other.
Source: http://chippewa.com/lifestyles/article_7806015c-d6d5-11df-8a80-001cc4c03286.html
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