Among the plants that are named for a higher resemblance.
Notes
Asarum
Asarum
Asarum
Partial text in Medieval Latin. Please post a translation in the comments.
Asarum
Asarum europaeum L. [as Asarum]
Asarum europaeum
Gewöhnliche Haselwurz (Asarum europaeum)
Mars’ Blood
It has been suggested that this may be one of the dark varieties of Wallflower (Cheiranthus cheiri), probably that known as ‘bloody warrior’; or again, the sanguinaria, wild millet.
Sang de Mars
Sang de Mars, sang d’Arés, par allusion à la couleur pourpre des fleurs: c’est le nom magique d’une Aristolochiée, l’Asarum europæum, L. ou cabaret (cf. Béjottes, loc. cit,, p 157, 158), qui est aussi l’Asarum de Pline (XXI, 78). M. Sainéan dit (H.N.R., 124), qu’il s’agirait de la Sanguinaire; vise-t-il notre Geranium sanguineum L., qui porte ce nom, ou la Sanguinaria de Pline qui serait, d’après Fée, le Polygonum aviculare, L. ? (Paul Delaunay)
sang de mars
Asarum iocinerum vitiis salutare esse traditur uncia sumpta in hemina mulsi mixti. alvum purgat ellebori modo, hydropicis prodest et praecordiis vulvisque ac morbo regio. in mustum si addatur, facit vinum urinis ciendis. effoditur cum folia emittit, siccatur et conditur. in umbra situm celerrime sentit.
Hazelwort [Dioscorides I. 9 (10 RV Wellmann) says of ἄσαρον, Ῥωμαῖοι περπρέσσαμ, οἱ δὲ βάκχαρ . . . Γάλλοι βάκαρ. Cf. Vol. vii, Index of Plants, s.v. Asarum, baccar, nardus] is said to be beneficial for liver complaints, an ounce being taken in a hemina of diluted honey wine. It purges the bowels after the manner of hellebore, and is good for dropsy, the hypochondria, the uterus and for jaundice. When added to must it makes a diuretic wine. It is dug up when the leaves are forming;d it is dried and then stored up. In the shade it very quickly goes mouldy.