Long used medicinally in Europe. Highly ornamental plant with elegant foliage and misty chartreuse flowers in spring and early summer. Decoction of root is powerful styptic and astringent.
References:
Grieve, M. (Maud). A Modern Herbal; the Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-Lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, & Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses. New York :Harcourt, Brace & company, 1931.
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