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Posted by Wildwood on Jul 31, 2013 in 2013, Flowers, July, Self-heal, Summer | 0 comments

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Self-heal, Prunella vulgaris.

“Appropriated” to the planet Venus in the 1652 medical text “The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation” by Nicholas Culpeper. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plants_in_The_English_Physitian_%281652_book%29

Pictures taken July 8.