larkspur

The purple-hued larkspur is one of my favorite spring flowers. Larkspur trivia you may not know: Larkspur has medicinal use in small amounts for insect bites, parasitic infestation, dropsy, and asthma. It is associated with Saint Odile, the patron saint of eye and ear diseases. Larkspur was used during the Civil War to kill lice in the hair. It is believed that drinking the seed could help the sting from a scorpion and is said to keep away scorpions and venomous snakes as well as ghosts. The juice of the flowers, mixed with alum, gives a blue ink. In Transylvania, because of the blue color, it is used on the stables to ward away witches. The larkspur is the July birth flower. The flower has a meaning of lightness and levity. Thus ends today's lesson.

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