Carduus nutans (Musk Thistle)
Netherfield Lagoons LNR, Nottinghamshire
Owthorpe, Nottinghamshire SK63R
In 1738 Charles Deering found this, “in Nottingham Castle Yard, about the sand Hills without Chapple Bar, and in many other Places.” In 1963 the Howitts echoed this, “Common on light soils, especially the Bunter and in the Trent Valley.” Deering also wrote, “The Seeds of all the Thistles are Diuretic... A Decoction of any of the Thistles is Detersive and Diuretic and therefore of Service in all sorts of Obstructions."
In her 1931 New Herbal, Mrs Grieve was more concerned about the growth of weeds and the risk that either thistles would monopolise a large extent of country to the extinction of other plants or necessitate a Weed Act, although "in medicine Thistles are far from useless" She details their use as fodder and advises the down of the Musk Thistle, as of some other species, may be advantageously used as a material in making paper.
Carduus nutans (Musk Thistle)
Netherfield Lagoons LNR, Nottinghamshire
Owthorpe, Nottinghamshire SK63R
In 1738 Charles Deering found this, “in Nottingham Castle Yard, about the sand Hills without Chapple Bar, and in many other Places.” In 1963 the Howitts echoed this, “Common on light soils, especially the Bunter and in the Trent Valley.” Deering also wrote, “The Seeds of all the Thistles are Diuretic... A Decoction of any of the Thistles is Detersive and Diuretic and therefore of Service in all sorts of Obstructions."
In her 1931 New Herbal, Mrs Grieve was more concerned about the growth of weeds and the risk that either thistles would monopolise a large extent of country to the extinction of other plants or necessitate a Weed Act, although "in medicine Thistles are far from useless" She details their use as fodder and advises the down of the Musk Thistle, as of some other species, may be advantageously used as a material in making paper.