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Brooklime, Veronica beccabunga

brooklimeEasily grown in a moderately fertile wet soil, growing best in water up to 15cm deep, brooklime prefers cool summers.

The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. They can be added to salads, mixed with water cress or cooked with other strongly flavoured greens. A pungent flavour, although the leaves are wholesome they are not very palatable.

The leaves are used in the treatment of scurvy, impurity of the blood etc.

The plant is bruised and applied externally as a politic on burns, ulcers, whitlows, etc.