Queen-of-meadows

The queen-of-meadows or distorts spirée ( Filipendula ulmaria ) is a long-lived herbaceous plant of the family of the Rosacées.

She is rich in derivatives salicylated as well as the willow (Salix alba) and gave her name to the Aspirine.

Other common nouns : Filipendule ulmaire, spirée ulmaire. Spirée owes its name with the spiral shape of its fruits (bibliography: J.P. Ferrari, etymological Dictionary of the French flora. Lechevalier, 1984).

Synonymous : Spirea ulmaria L.

botanical Description : This beautiful long-lived herbaceous plant, with the very elegant port is hairy, has a drawn up port, leafy, a crawling rhizome and measures of fifty centimetre to one meter and half. The reddish stem is glabrous and angular and carries multiples false ombelles ramified, very odorous, of a yellowish white. The sheet is imparipennée, green sinks, glabrous, felted above of white in lower part. The final leaflet webbed, is divided into three or five parts, the side leaflets form from two to five pairs along the petiole. It is its proud pace which made call it " queen of the prés". The fruits are rolled up helical

Localization : Spirée pushes mainly in the wet places, particularly at the edge of the , wet meadow, ditch and rivers bordering the ways Aulnaie S or meadow, from where its name.

Origin : Europe

Active ingredient : salicylic acid.

Properties : anti-inflammatory drug, diuretic, sudorific, astringent, tonic, antispasmodic, healing, antalgic, it has also digestive properties

Constituent chemical principal : Glucoside S, Gaultérine, Spiréïne, Heliotropin, Vanillin and Salicylic acid.

Food use

Like aromatizing for the creams and the desserts, but also the toothpastes and drinks.

Flowers and sheets give a pleasant infusion and can be put to macerate in wine to scent it.

Medicinal properties

The sheets and the flowers are diuretic, febrifuge, antispasmodic and antirhumatismales.

The roots and the sheets are astringent, vulnerary and detergent.

This plant which belongs to the French pharmacopeia there is authorized on sale free.

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