Plants

Mugwort

Description: Perennial herbaceous plant growing up to 1 m, with pinnate and spiked leaves. It has ovate or longitudinal heads, up to 5 mm in a branched panicle. It has a reddish-brown crown. Distribution in Kosovo: Next to roadsides, in grass areas, arable and cultivated land. Parts used: The leaves, aerial parts and rarely roots. …

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Sweet wormwood

Description: Annual herbaceous plant growing up to 2 m. Stem leaves are of ovate spikes. Hemispherical capitulum, wide panicle, with yellow or yellowish colour. Glabrous plant. Distribution in Kosovo: Grassy places, barren. Parts used: Herb, seeds. Harvest time: The whole plant is harvested during the summer (VI-VII). Drying: Dried in cool rooms or ovens in …

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Wormwood

Description: Perennial herbaceous plant, 30-90cm. The whole plant is in grey – white colour, with strong scent. Leaves densely covered with white silky hairs and spikes 1 mm wide. Heads with a diameter of 3-4 mm. Yellow flowers in pyramid shape. Distribution throughout Kosovo: Roadsides, grassy places, stone-flinty places and is cultivated. Parts used: Entire …

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Bearberry

Description: Groundcover bush 30 – 150 cm, with broadleaves resistant to cold weather (winter), 12-30X 4-12 mm. White flowers (petals), with the pink top. When ripened, the fruit is red. itflowers from May to June. Distribution in Kosovo: Distributed mainly in sunny places, in pastures and rocks of subalpine and alpine zone of Sharr Mountains …

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Burdock

Description: Perennial herbaceous plant, up to 90-150 cm tall. Roundish or oval leaves, where basal leaves are much bigger than those of the stem. Capitulum placed  in 3 – 3.5 cm corymbs shape flowerhead. Glabrous bracts and obvolute. Distribution throughout Kosovo: In barren places near settlements, roadsides, near forests, etc. Parts used: Dried roots (Bardanae …

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Marshmallow

Description: It is a perennial herbaceous plant, up to 2m tall, with long and thick roots. Large hairy leaves, spiked up to the middle and with long petioles. Crown has 5 petals bigger than calyx. It has many stamens and round ovary. The fruit is multipart mericarp with one seed.  It flowers from May to …

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Wild garlice

Description: Is a bulbous perennial herbaceous plant 4×1 cm, almost spherical. The stem 10-50 cm, usually double cornered and half cylinder, sometimes three-cornered. Leaves 2-3, blade 6-20cm x 15-80 cm, almost elliptical to ovate, sharp–pointed extending to a long-stemmed and a rounded base or heart-shaped gat. Umbel 2.5-6 cm in diameter, with 6-20 loosed flower, …

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LAdy’s mantle

Description: Is a powerful herbaceous perennial plant, 10-50 cm height with glabrous leaves or dense hair. The underground part (rhizomes) covered with stipules remains. The leaves 7-11 lobes, semicircular or triangular to ovate green. The stem leaves are smaller with toothed edges. Heirless flower or with hair underneath. Distribution in Kosovo: Spread in lawns and …

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Monk’s Hood

Description: A herbaceous perennial plant growing tall and branchy stem, thick roots and green torn leaves in 3-5 segments to the root. The flowers are dark purple to bluish–purple. Distribution in Kosovo: Sharri mountains, Albanian Alps, it also grows in other parts of Europe, Asia and wider. Parts used: Roots (radix), rarely leaves. Harvest time: …

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Yarrow

Description: Perennial herbaceous plant with sprawling rhizomes, 10-70 cm pedicle.  Separatedpinnate leaves 0.5-1.2 cm wide, pubescence at some extent. Wrapping bracts almost glabrous;. White to yellow flowers placed in capitulum 3 – 5 mm in diameter, placed on dense corymbs. Distribution in Kosovo: widespread in meadows and dry places with grass. Parts used: Entire aerial part …

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