Łódź, Botanical Garden

It is native to much of the northern section of North America. Ornamental plant. Edible plant - leaves and flowers raw or cooked, they are used as a flavouring in raw or cooked dishes, excellent raw, they have a sweet aniseed flavour and are one of our favourite flavourings in salads; a pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves; the seeds can be added as a flavouring to cookies or muffins. Herbal plant - the leaves are cardiac and diaphoretic, an infusion of the leaves is used in the treatment of colds, fevers, weak heart etc; when left to go cold, the infusion is used to treat pains in the chest (such as when the lungs are sore from too much coughing; a poultice of leaves and stems can be used to treat burns.