Mysterious plant ?!?!?!?
Stephen Wolstenholme writes
It's the name I remember from over 50 years ago when I was very young.
I think it was to make us think the fields were full of scorpions and
stinging plants.
I'd assumed it was just from the shape of the flower spike, as in the
botanical name of another of the family, Myosotis scorpiodes, water
forget-me-not
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Kay
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