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- Plants
Here are some flowering plants
- "Adam-an-Eves"- the tubers of an orchid (there are a number of common orchids in Scotland).
- "Bad money" - the gentian, which was used medicinally in the Highlands.
- "Blue bonnet" - cornflower.
- "Bluidy fingers" - foxglove.
- "Bread-and-cheese" - the inside of a thistle head.
- "Coo cakes" - hogweed.
- "Dodgill Reepan" - a species of marsh orchid, the roots of which were used as a love potion!
- "Dusty Miller" - a species of primula with a white powdery appearance on the flowers and leaves.
- "Grannie's Mutches" - columbine.
- "Harebell" - "campanula rotundifolia", the bluebell of Scotland.
- "Plyven" - the flower of the white or red clover.
- "Speengie Rose" - peony.
- "Sticky Willie" - cleavers or goose grass, a plant with hooked bristles which catch on clothing.
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