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Sanicula europaea
Also called Sanicle, European Sanicle
Wood sanicle is a low perennial woodland herb of the carrot family, native to Europe and parts of Asia and North Africa, grown mainly as a traditional medicinal and shade-garden plant. It thrives in cool, moist, shaded woodland conditions.
Sanicula europaea, the sanicle or wood sanicle, is a perennial plant of the family Apiaceae.
It has traditionally been a favoured ingredient of many herbal remedies, and of it was said "he who has sanicle and self-heal needs neither physician nor surgeon".
Sanicula europaea was used in Europe for healing wounds and cleaning. Filtered leaf extracts of sanicula europaea have shown some antiviral properties, inhibiting the replication of type 2 Human parainfluenza viruses (HPIV-2).
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sanicula europaea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
