Herbs
Canary grass
Phalaris canariensis
Family Poaceae. The plant got its name because its seeds are used to feed songbirds.
Plants
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Cinchona tree
Cinchona Pubescens Vahl
Family Rubiaceae. Parts used: bark of cultivated trees. Pharmacopoeial name: cinchona bark - Cinchonae succirubrae cortex (formerly: Cortex Chinae).
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Common Fennel
Foeniculum Vulgare
Family Umbelliferae. Common names: apothecary dill. Parts used: ripe fruits, very rarely the root.
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Common hop
Humulus Lupulus
Family Cannabaceae Popular names: brewer's hop, hop flower, hop cone. Used parts: female inflorescences ("cones") and lupulin glands (glandular scales).
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Common horseradish
Armoracia Rusticana Gaertn
Family Brassicaceae. Common names: peasant mustard, meat herb, peppery root, wood radish.
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Common meadow-grass
Poa trivialis L.
Family Poaceae. Perennial grass with a rhizomatous type of tillering. Forms a dense bright-green sward, but in terms of vegetative development is considerably inferior to meadow bluegrass.
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Common reed
Phragmites australis
Perennial plant 1-4 m tall, with long and thick, creeping rhizomes. Forms stands in wet places and along the banks of water bodies. Stems erect, with numerous nodes.
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Common wormwood
Artemisia vulgaris
Family Asteraceae. A frost-hardy perennial. The correct name of this cultivar is 'Janlim', but commercial firms market it under the trade name 'Oriental Limelight'.
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Cortaderia
Cortaderia
A perennial dioecious ornamental plant of the grass family, forming dense and large clumps. Leaves linear, sharp-toothed. Spikelets gathered into large panicles ranging from silvery-white to golden-yellow.
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Cotton
Gossypium
Family Malvaceae. Pharmaceutical name: cotton root bark - Gossypii cortex radicis (formerly: Cortex Gossypii radicis).
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Crested comb
С. cristatus L.
Family: grasses. Grows in meadows and forest clearings in Europe (except the Arctic and steppe regions), in the Caucasus and in Western Asia.
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Cushion sedge
Сarex firma
Family Cyperaceae. In the wild the plant is confined to the subalpine belt of the mountain regions of Europe.