Plant of the Day

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March 23, 2026

JACOB’S LADDER

The Polemonium cœruleum, from its leaflets being arranged in successive pairs.

About

The Brazen Nippers Plant of the Day is taken from "An Encyclopædia of Six Hundred Plants, English and Foreign" in Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics by Richard Folkard (London, 1884). The full text of the book is available from Project Gutenberg, Archive.org (where it is a part of the Biodiversity Heritage Library), and Google Books.

Other interesting plant books at PG:

The Folk-lore of Plants by T. F. Thiselton Dyer
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe