Blootweed

Blootweed

Blootweedis a perennial herb, which can be up to half a meter high. It blooms during the high summer with red-violet small flowers in broom-like collections. The leaves are oblong, lanceolate. With a distinctly sharp perfume-like, but not unpleasant fragrance. The leaves are saturated with essential oil and can be irritating to bare skin.
The leaves are often used to drive away lice and fleas. Special bags filled with leaves are produced from the plant. The housewives often sprinkle dried leaves around beds just to keep away blood sucking parasites.
Even beekeepers use parts of the plant, when bee seems to be attracted to the scent but it also cleans out the parasites that are in the hive and thus helps keep the bee healthy.
Honey from the plant is considered to be the only active agent against the dreaded scrub cough. This means that beekeepers exhibit their hives when it is time for flowering. There may be several beekeepers competing for the best place

Basic Information

Growth Rate & Stages

The plant is perennial and has small insignificant seeds. First bloom the second year.

Ecology and Habitats

The plant can be found almost everywhere in the temperate climate zone. It preferably grows in moist areas such as beach meadows and flooded pastures. Where it can spread through self-sowing to large dense bush-like rugs.

Additional Information

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

The plant also say used on an arcane plane. But it is difficult to obtain further information. But it should obviously have a protective task, especially against demons associated with swarming insects.

Scientific Name

Blootanium Vulgaris

Conservation Status

Although the plant is in no way threatened, many grow it in large fields with only this species. But apparently the result is not quite as good as from wild-growing specimens. It probably has something to do with the interaction between other plants and insects. It is the interaction that makes the wild plant so more effective.