Agrimony

Origin and Specification of the Plant

Binomial Name: Agrimonia Eupatoria
Kingdom: Plantae
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Agrimonia
Species: A.Eupatoria
Foliage: Deciduous
Origin: Western North America
Shade: Bright yellow
Other names: stickle-wort, church steeples, beggar’s lice, clot blur, common agrimony
Elements contained by the plant:
Flowering season: June to August
Height: 30cm-60cm
Description: Individual flowers are 5 petalled and yellow, Leaves are veined and pinnate, An erect perennial bearing flower
Qualities and preferences: often grows on chalk where the thin soil makes for shorter grass and so less competition, will not strong acid or more than slight shade.
Habitat: hedgerows and road-side verges, grassland, waste places

The plant gains the name church steeple as it refers to its tall spikes of yellow flowers. During the medieval period, Agrimony was used as a component in a medication called arquebuse water to heal wounds of soldiers who fought in the battle-field. A recent study on agrimony shows that the plant possessed antimicrobial activity against some common wound pathogens.

Agrimony is strangely solitary in that even when it grows across a field each plant is distinctly separate, in its own space, interspersed with many other grassland flowers. This is not a plant that builds a mass population of its own kind – it does not grow in a group like Impatiens – Agrimony is dotted among the grasses. Because of its isolated habit it is not even listed as a weed of arable land. This represents that even though Agrimony people are sociable, they are truly still alone as they are keeping a secret about who they really are and the tortures they face, building a wall from everyone they know.

Specification of remedy

Group: The first 12 essences
Emotional Group: Over sensitive to influences and ideas
Personality: Torment
Virtue: Stillness
Failing: Torture
Method of extraction: Sun

Occasionally, agrimony tea sometimes was drunk by people in France due to its apricot scent, good flavour and medicinal qualities.

Comparison between other flowers

Heather:
The average Heather person would normally be self-absorbed and can never avoid discussing their trivial woes. This is opposite of the Agrimony personality as they never talk about themselves or draw attention to their life to conceal their torture. Both these personalities dislike being alone but for different reasons.