Botany Index
(Latin) Polemonium reptans
(Family) Polemoniaceae (Phlox Family)
In the European Folk or White Cultures including Anglo and Celt, it is also known/referred to as;
Greek Valerian and later on Jacobs ladder.
Greek Valerian and later on Jacobs ladder.
(French) - Phlox (Phlox)
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(Irish Gaelic) - Flacs (Phlox)
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A Perennial plant that grows up to 1 foot in height
Flowering from the tide of Vernal equinox of Eostre to Bealtainnes Summer.
To propogate, sow seeds in early springs frost of Imbolc. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in the greenhouse for their first winter (Northern Hemisphere or cold climates). Plant them out into their permanent positions in the vernal equinox of Eostre to or at Summers Bealtainne, after the last expected frosts.
Propogate small divisions, in springs Imbolc or Lughnasadhs autumn. Larger divisions can be planted out direct into their permanent positions.
Flowering from the tide of Vernal equinox of Eostre to Bealtainnes Summer.
To propogate, sow seeds in early springs frost of Imbolc. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in the greenhouse for their first winter (Northern Hemisphere or cold climates). Plant them out into their permanent positions in the vernal equinox of Eostre to or at Summers Bealtainne, after the last expected frosts.
Propogate small divisions, in springs Imbolc or Lughnasadhs autumn. Larger divisions can be planted out direct into their permanent positions.
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Note: I have included related etymology (Origin of Words) for preserving the Language and culture of Europe for Ethnic Europeans/English, at the end of this page.
- Varietys and Summary of Uses
- Growing
- Pest Control
- Companions and in landscape
- Harvesting
- Dietary
- Health and self care
- In my Magickal Wyrdcraft and Druidry practice
- In European Culture and Folklore
Note: I have included related etymology (Origin of Words) for preserving the Language and culture of Europe for Ethnic Europeans/English, at the end of this page.
Varietys and Summary of Uses
Growing
Companions and in Landscape
Pest Control
Harvesting
Harvest in the autumns Lughnasadh and dry for later use.
Harvest in the autumns Lughnasadh and dry for later use.
Dietary
Health and self care
A decoction of the whole plant is used as a hair rinse. The dried roots have a slightly bitter and acrid taste. They are alterative, astringent, diaphoretic, expectorant and pectoral. They can be used in an infusion with water or as a tincture with alcohol. They are used internally in the treatment of coughs, colds, bronchitis, laryngitis, tuberculosis, feverish and inflammatory diseases, including skin conditions and poisonous bites. The root is rarely used in modern herbalism.
A decoction of the whole plant is used as a hair rinse. The dried roots have a slightly bitter and acrid taste. They are alterative, astringent, diaphoretic, expectorant and pectoral. They can be used in an infusion with water or as a tincture with alcohol. They are used internally in the treatment of coughs, colds, bronchitis, laryngitis, tuberculosis, feverish and inflammatory diseases, including skin conditions and poisonous bites. The root is rarely used in modern herbalism.
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History and or Etimology
root (n.)
'Underground part of a plant,' late Old English rot, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse rot "root," figuratively "cause, origin," from Proto-Germanic *wrot (source also of Old English wyrt "root, herb, plant," Old High German wurz, German Wurz "a plant," Gothic waurts "a root," with characteristic Scandinavian loss of -w- before -r-), from PIE root *wrād- "branch, root." The usual Old English words for "root" were wyrttruma and wyrtwala.
Figurative use is from c. 1200. Of teeth, hair, etc., from early 13c. Mathematical sense is from 1550s. Philological sense from 1520s. Slang meaning "penis" is recorded from 1846. In African-American vernacular use, "a spell effected by magical properties of roots," 1935. To take root is from 1530s. Root beer, made from the extracts of various roots, first recorded 1841, American English; root doctor is from 1821. Root cap is from 1875.
root (v.1)
"dig with the snout," 1530s, from Middle English wroten "dig with the snout," from Old English wrotan "to root up," from Proto-Germanic *wrot- (source also of Old Norse rota, Swedish rota "to dig out, root," Middle Low German wroten, Middle Dutch wroeten, Old High German ruozian "to plow up"), from PIE root *wrod- "to root, gnaw."
Associated with the verb sense of root (n.). Extended sense of "poke about, pry" first recorded 1831. Phrase root hog or die "work or fail" first attested 1834, American English (in works of Davey Crockett, who noted it as an "old saying"). Reduplicated form rootin' tootin' "noisy, rambunctious" is recorded from 1875.
phlox (n.)
genus of North American ornamental plants, 1706, from Latin, where it was the name of a flower (Pliny), from Greek phlox "kind of plant with showy flowers" (probably Silene vulgaris), literally "a flame," related to phlegein "to burn" (from PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn"). Applied to the North American flowering plant by German botanist Johann Jakob Dillenius (1684-1747).
The word Phlox comes from the Greek meaning “flame”.
*bhel- (1)
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to shine, flash, burn," also "shining white" and forming words for bright colors. It forms all or part of: beluga; Beltane; black; blancmange; blanch; blank; blanket; blaze (n.1) "bright flame, fire;" bleach; bleak; blemish; blench; blende; blend; blind; blindfold; blitzkrieg; blond; blue (adj.1); blush; conflagration; deflagration; effulgence; effulgent; flagrant; flambe; flambeau; flamboyant; flame; flamingo; flammable; Flavian; Flavius; fulgent; fulminate; inflame; inflammable; phlegm; phlegmatic; phlogiston; phlox; purblind; refulgent; riboflavin.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit bhrajate "shines;" Greek phlegein "to burn;" Latin flamma "flame," fulmen "lightning," fulgere "to shine, flash," flagrare "to burn, blaze, glow;" Old Church Slavonic belu "white;" Lithuanian balnas "pale."
phlogiston (n.)
1730, hypothetical inflammatory principle, formerly believed to exist in all combustible matter, from Modern Latin (1702), from Greek phlogiston (1610s in this sense), neuter of phlogistos "burnt up, inflammable," from phlogizein "to set on fire, burn," from phlox (genitive phlogos) "flame, blaze" (from PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn"). The theory was propounded by Stahl (1702), denied by Lavoisier (1775), defended by Priestley, but generally abandoned by 1800. Related: Phlogistic; phlogisticated.
'Underground part of a plant,' late Old English rot, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse rot "root," figuratively "cause, origin," from Proto-Germanic *wrot (source also of Old English wyrt "root, herb, plant," Old High German wurz, German Wurz "a plant," Gothic waurts "a root," with characteristic Scandinavian loss of -w- before -r-), from PIE root *wrād- "branch, root." The usual Old English words for "root" were wyrttruma and wyrtwala.
Figurative use is from c. 1200. Of teeth, hair, etc., from early 13c. Mathematical sense is from 1550s. Philological sense from 1520s. Slang meaning "penis" is recorded from 1846. In African-American vernacular use, "a spell effected by magical properties of roots," 1935. To take root is from 1530s. Root beer, made from the extracts of various roots, first recorded 1841, American English; root doctor is from 1821. Root cap is from 1875.
root (v.1)
"dig with the snout," 1530s, from Middle English wroten "dig with the snout," from Old English wrotan "to root up," from Proto-Germanic *wrot- (source also of Old Norse rota, Swedish rota "to dig out, root," Middle Low German wroten, Middle Dutch wroeten, Old High German ruozian "to plow up"), from PIE root *wrod- "to root, gnaw."
Associated with the verb sense of root (n.). Extended sense of "poke about, pry" first recorded 1831. Phrase root hog or die "work or fail" first attested 1834, American English (in works of Davey Crockett, who noted it as an "old saying"). Reduplicated form rootin' tootin' "noisy, rambunctious" is recorded from 1875.
phlox (n.)
genus of North American ornamental plants, 1706, from Latin, where it was the name of a flower (Pliny), from Greek phlox "kind of plant with showy flowers" (probably Silene vulgaris), literally "a flame," related to phlegein "to burn" (from PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn"). Applied to the North American flowering plant by German botanist Johann Jakob Dillenius (1684-1747).
The word Phlox comes from the Greek meaning “flame”.
*bhel- (1)
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to shine, flash, burn," also "shining white" and forming words for bright colors. It forms all or part of: beluga; Beltane; black; blancmange; blanch; blank; blanket; blaze (n.1) "bright flame, fire;" bleach; bleak; blemish; blench; blende; blend; blind; blindfold; blitzkrieg; blond; blue (adj.1); blush; conflagration; deflagration; effulgence; effulgent; flagrant; flambe; flambeau; flamboyant; flame; flamingo; flammable; Flavian; Flavius; fulgent; fulminate; inflame; inflammable; phlegm; phlegmatic; phlogiston; phlox; purblind; refulgent; riboflavin.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit bhrajate "shines;" Greek phlegein "to burn;" Latin flamma "flame," fulmen "lightning," fulgere "to shine, flash," flagrare "to burn, blaze, glow;" Old Church Slavonic belu "white;" Lithuanian balnas "pale."
phlogiston (n.)
1730, hypothetical inflammatory principle, formerly believed to exist in all combustible matter, from Modern Latin (1702), from Greek phlogiston (1610s in this sense), neuter of phlogistos "burnt up, inflammable," from phlogizein "to set on fire, burn," from phlox (genitive phlogos) "flame, blaze" (from PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn"). The theory was propounded by Stahl (1702), denied by Lavoisier (1775), defended by Priestley, but generally abandoned by 1800. Related: Phlogistic; phlogisticated.
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