Liverleaf

Tags: Flowers Description: The liverleaf has a fine blue-violet flower that blooms early, before leaf burst casts shade over the plants. It can in fact begin to open its small dark-blue petals already during the snowmelt. The stem of the liverleaf is covered in fine silky hairs. The leaves are dark green and three-lobed, and perhaps a little liver-shaped. The Latin name for the liverleaf means liver, and in the old days the plant was used against liver diseases. The whole plant is poisonous to us humans. But not to ants. In autumn a fruit appears on the liverleaf. It contains seeds and a little fat. The ants are very fond of the fat and therefore carry the fruit away with them. Once they have eaten the fat, the seeds have been spread to a new place. Use: In the old days it was said that ‘A woman can secure her husband’s love if she carries the flower on her all her life’. Habitat type: Forest Edible: Poisonous Written by: Lærke Stewart

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Liverleaf. Photo: Øyvind Holmstad, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons