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Common Name: Jersey Cudweed
Gnaphalium luteoalbum is a Annual/Biennial up to 0.20 metres tall.
It is harvested from the wild for local use as a food, medicine and source of materials.
Most of Europe, including Britain, and most other warm temperate regions in the world.
Sandy fields and waste places in the Channel Islands[
]. It is also possibly native to a few mainland areas of Britain[
Requires a sunny position in a well-drained soil[
Leaves - raw or cooked[
The leaves are astringent, cholagogue, diuretic, febrifuge, haemostatic and vulnerary[
]. The plant is used in the treatment of breast cancer in Belgium[
The leaves are used as a tinder[
Seed - sow late spring in situ and only just cover the seed.