chamomile (Matricaria recutita)

• Chamomile is also spelled camomile.
• Chamomile (Matricaria recutita) is an easy to grow hardy annual.
• The fresh flowers can be used to make a 'tisane' or herbal tea.
• The fresh flowers can be used to add interest to salads.
• The flowers can be dried for use when fresh flowers are not available.
• The dried flowers can be used to make a 'tisane' or herbal tea.
• The leaves can also be used to make herbal teas but they are more bitter. Herbal teas made with the dried flowers taste better.
• To grow a chamomile lawn use Roman Chamomile (Chamaemelum Nobile) which is a smaller growing perennial.
• Both types of chamomile have similar properties.

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• An aromatic mat-forming plant that is ideal as a lawn substitute, and in summer white daisy-like flowers are produced.
• http://www.bbc.co.uk
• Chamomile is an easy herb to grow, and self-seeds happily. This means it will sprout up from the ground in the same place each year without the trouble of you having to save seed and re-sow them.
• http://www.herbexpert.co.uk
• Drinking camomile tea can fight a cold and banish menstrual cramps, UK researchers believe.
• http://news.bbc.co.uk
• Drinking chamomile tea daily may help prevent the complications of type 2 diabetes, such as loss of vision and nerve and kidney damage, a study says.
• http://news.bbc.co.uk
• Jekka's Herb FarmChamomile, one of our most favourite old garden herbs, is renowned for its sedative properties. Use its delicate flowers, fresh or dried, to make a calming herbal tea, or a hair rinse, or an eye wash. Plant a chamomile seat, sit down, smell the sweet aroma and sip a cooled chamomile infusion..summer is all around you. Jekka McVicar
• https://www.jekkasherbfarm.com
• Plants for a future. Edible medicinal and useful plants. Entry for German Camomile
• http://www.pfaf.org
• Recent and on-going research has identified chamomile's specific anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-allergenic and sedative properties, validating its long-held reputation. This attention appears to have increased the popularity of the herb and nowadays
• http://www.herbwisdom.com