Word: mullein
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...henbit, spotted Joe-Pye weed, gray beardtongue, spreading dogbane, live forever, steeplebush, crazyweed, woolly locoweed, hairy vetch, lady's thumb, common speedwell, field milkwort, Lyon's turtlehead, ragged robin, calypso, common burdock, spotted knapweed, hairy willow herb, purple saxifrage, red baneberry, slender glasswort, toadshade, climbing bittersweet, birdsfoot trefoil, moth mullein, smooth false foxglove, showy rattlebox, prince's plume, agrimony, squawroot, mouse-ear hawkweed, rattlesnake weed, coltsfoot, tickseed sunflower, Jerusalem artichoke, sneezeweed, swollen bladderwort, clammy ground cherry, purslane, muskflower, rough-fruited cinquefoil, climbing boneset...
...These are also beyond numbering, but include traditional notables like hot toddy, hot lemonade, chicken broth, regional potions like the South's horehound and pine-needle tea, and ethnic preparations featuring ingredients like honey, garlic and cayenne. Faith is widespread in the anticold potency of herbs like eucalyptus, mullein leaves, bloodroot and red clover. California Herb Specialist Michael Tierra commends a concoction of honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and licorice...
...experiment was inherited by colleagues at Michigan State College (now University), who had been bequeathed a map showing where the remaining bottles were buried. By 1960 only three varieties of seed still grew. A decade later, one hardy weed survived: Verbascum blattaria or moth mullein...
...this year were planted, as usual, in soil sterilized by steam. But at first nothing happened. Had the century-old seeds finally expired? No. After several weeks the first seedling emerged; within five months 29 seeds had germinated. Six of the seedlings died. Of the survivors, 21 are moth mullein, one is another type of Verbascum and the last a variety of the Malva species that had not sprouted since...
Katie Ditzler and Leslie Mullein win #2 doubles...