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Wild Pansy

Description: Annual herbaceous plant with branched stalk, growing 20-30 cm. Lower leaves of heart-shaped or ovate, having its edge finely toothed. Purple, yellow or mixed colours flowers. Distribution in Kosovo: It grows in places with grass, shrubs and open areas, up to alpine area. Parts used: Surface part (Violae tricoloris herba), root (Violae tricoloris radix) …

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Violet

Description: Perennial herbaceous plant 5-20 cm high with green colour. Rounded leaves with petiole 1-5 cm. The purple and aromatic flowers are with spur. Distribution in Kosovo: In places with shrubs and forests of hilly mountain areas. Parts used: Aerial part (Violae odoratae herba), root (Violae  odoratae radix) Harvest time: The herb harvested during spring …

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Vervain

Description: Annual herbaceous plant up to 1 m high, with quadrangular stalk. Crenulated or pinnate leaves. Flowers without petioles, small with rose colour rarely white placed in long spikes which form a panicle floral. Distribution in Kosovo: In grasslands of hilly mountain areas, near the roads and rural areas. Parts used: Aerial part (Verbenae herba). …

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Mullein

Description: Biennial herbaceous plant up to 2 m high, with large ovate basal leaves, longitudinal inverted densely covered with hairs. Yellow flower grouped up the steam with yarn fringe of white hair. Distribution throughout Kosovo: In dry sunny places, near roads and in rural areas. Parts used: Flower (Verbasci flos), sometimes the leaves (Verbasci folium). Harvest …

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Valerian

Description: Perennial herbaceous plant up to 2 m high, with short and thick rhizome from which derive very thin roots. Pinnate leaves divided in 7-8 segments, lower part with petioles and upper part with no petioles. Small flowers, white-pink grouped at the top of stalk, in corymbs floral. Distribution in Kosovo: In Kosovo is rarely …

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Wild Bilberry

Description: Sub-shrub plant up to 80 cm high. Soft green leaves in crenulated ovate shape. Campanula flowers, rose to white colour. The fruit is blue-black. Distribution in Kosovo: Quite common in subalpine area of the Albanian Alps and Sharr. Parts used: Leaf (Myrtilli folium) and fruit (Myrtilli fructus). Harvest time: The leaves are harvested during …

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Stinging nettle

Description: Perennial herbaceous plant 30-150 cm, with grasping stump, usually dioecious, covered spicy hairs. The leaves are up front, ovate, rarely lanceolate, crenulated in the heart shape. Floral up to 10 cm, branched. Female flowers with two short external parts and two internal parts, twice longer than the external. Distribution in Kosovo: Quite common in …

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Wild Thyme

Description: Half-shrub plant with a stalk almost raised and prostrated,  without sprawling branches bearing stem. Stalk 25-40 cm, sometimes branched, fleecy only on angles. Leaves 18 x 10 mm, are oval or longitudinal-lanceolate, usually sphenoid blunt, eyelash type at the base. Campanile calyx 3-4 mm. Corolla around 6 mm, rose-purple. Distribution in Kosovo: Grows mainly …

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Red clover

Description: Perennial herbaceous tufted plant, hairy to an extent, 20-100 cm. Dendriticrhizome. Herbaceous branches slightly prostrated and curved. Leaflets are ovate, inverted or longitudinal. Heads (floral) 20-40 mm, with short petiole. Tube type calyx 3.5-4 mm of crenulated type 2.5-4 mm. Corolla 12-16 mm, reddish-purple or pink. Ovate green beans, with thickened top. Distribution in …

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Lime

Description: Woody plant up to 30 m high. Leaves are glabrous at the bottom side; only in the edges of the veins have hair tufts of rust colour, 3-9 cm. The floral consist of 4-15 flowers. The fruit is about 6 mm. Distribution in Kosovo: It grows in forests of hilly and mountainous area, also …

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