Date of collection: 26.8.2016

• Location where you found the herb, including a description of the habitat: Kortepohjankoulu schoolyard the plant looks like: The plant looks like a Lady's Mantle, that's how it got it's name.
• Scientific name of the plant: Alchemilla spp
• Common name of the plant: Lady's Mantle.
• it smells like: like nothing.
• The plant's medicinal or nutritional qualities: Glittering raindrops often collect in the funnel at the base of the leaves after rainfall. In the Middle Ages alchemists thought that the liquid could be the much sought afterquinta essentia, the fifth element, the water of life itself which could cure sickness.