Viola odorata Viol - intro, appearance and characteristics The violet is a small, fine perennial plant with violet flowers and dark green heart-shaped leaves with a serrated edge. Apart from the petiole and the underside...

Dandelion - intro, appearance and characteristics A milky herb, also called dandelion grows up to 30 cm. It has a strong taproot, hollow stems and leaves with jagged edges. Yellow flower, consisting of countless petals....

Cress - intro, appearance and characteristics. Common Cress (Alliaria petiolata) or simply Cress is a biennial herb that grows between 20-100 cm tall. Cress grows in loam in forests and fences throughout Denmark. The leaves...

Carum carvi Cumin - intro, appearance and characteristics Cumin is one of our oldest medicinal herbs. It has been found in middens from the Stone Age. A two to perennial screen plant which used to...

Urtica dioica Stinging nettle - intro, appearance and characteristics. There are two types of stinging nettles, Large Nettle and Little Nettle. Large nettle is the most common and what we colloquially call stinging nettle. We...

Spruce The name spruce can be found in sources dating back to the 15th century. There have been many suggestions as to where the name spruce comes from. One theory says that fir is derived...

Dried herbs are traditionally consumed as tea. Either by pouring boiling water over the dried drug, or by boiling it for 10 min. which is necessary for hard plant parts such as bark or roots....

One is tempted to point to the creatures that in ancient times rose from the sea and created life on Earth. The name, place and time of that person have probably been lost in the...

Milk thistle, intro, appearance and characteristics. Milk thistle is a vigorous, very decorative 0.5 to 1.5 meter tall, biennial medicinal plant with large white marbled leaves. It develops purple flowers in July-August. The plant has...