common milkwort
polygala vulgaris latin

The northern embankment supports plants such a common milkwort, common centaury and white clover.

Common milkwort grows in meadows, slopes, edges of forests, heaths, sunny woods, dunes and grasslands.

According to Classical and Renaissance writers common milkwort was used medicinally as an infusion to increase the flow of a nursing mother's milk.

The larvae feed on Common Milkwort, Polygala serpyllifolia and Pedicularis sylvatica.

Summer species include Common Milkwort, Oxeye Daisy, Common Knapweed and the Bulbous Buttercup.

Polygala vulgaris, known as the Common Milkwort, is a herbaceous perennial plant of the genus Polygala belonging to the Polygalaceae family.

Common Milkwort is quite similar to the Heath Milkwort (Polygala serpyllifolia), but in this species the inner sepals are usually longer than the petals.

Less common species include common milkwort, Polygala vulgaris, hairy violet, Viola hirta, and wild carrot, Daucus carota.

At the top of the slope the geology produces a limestone flora, including Common Milkwort, Field Scabious, Hairy Violet and Yellow-wort.

There is a limestone-loving range of plants at the top of the slope which include Common Milkwort, Field Scabious, Yellow-wort and Hairy Violet.

The area has been used as a pastureland for hundreds of years, and common species are Catsfoot, Wild Thyme, Common Milkwort, Radiola linoides, and Chaffweed.

There is Wild Thyme, Common Milkwort, Fairy Flax, Bird's-foot Trefoil, Autumn Gentian, Harebell, Eyebright.

Meadow plants include Cowslip, Lady's Bedstraw, Common Milkwort, Salad Burnet, Field Scabious, Yellow-wort and Fragrant Orchid.

Herbs include Rock-rose, Restharrow, Carmine Thistle, Common Milkwort and Dwarf Thistle, Yellow-wort, Fairy Flax, Wild Thyme and Large Thyme (Thymus pulegioides).

Several plants were named after Freyja, such as Freyja's tears and Freyja's hair (Polygala vulgaris), but during the process of Christianization, the name of the goddess was replaced with that of the Virgin Mary.