Warrior's Blood

Common name: Warriors' Blood, so named for its appearance to splotches of blood covering a battlefield.

Type: Flowering, herbaceous plant

Seasonal Characteristics: Perennial

Description: Low growing. Small flowers (1 cm in diameter) with four dark red petals are grown in short, compound umbels. Small, green, sagittate leaves. Grows in large clusters/patches that share a system of fine, tangled surface roots.

Use: Commonly grown as a fodder crop, and leaves can be added to soups/salads for human consumption. The sod-like patches are dug up and used as insulation in primitive houses.

Possible dangers: Sprawling, extremely common weed. Often outcompetes other plants by being a hearty ground cover.

Habitat: Found in temperate to cold climates. Extremely prevalent in large fields. Mildly common in temperate forests.

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