Very common on pastures, roadsides, banks, wasteplaces, preferring dry sandy soil, throughout Briatain and all the temperate world

A perennial plant that has erect, hairy, lanceolate leaves, which grow from the rootstock on margined petioles in a basal rosette. Several grooved flower stalks may grow from 6 to 30 inches high, tipped by a short spike of tune white flowers whose brownish sepals and bracts give the spike its predominantly dark colour. uses: medicinal (gyógynövény)