bear's-wort

Updated: March 1, 2026

There is the bear's-breech, from its roughness, a name transferred by some mistake from the Acanthus to the cow-parsnip, and the bear's-wort, which it has been suggested "is rather to be derived from its use in uterine complaints than from the animal."

T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer - The Folk-lore of Plants