| At Embsay I found harebell, knapweed, honeysuckle, meadowsweet, bittersweet and of course lots of teasel. |
| Then white umbels of pignuts contrast with the drooping honey-scented cream plumes of meadowsweet. |
| Other locals include yarrow, pussytoes, mallow, cudweed, meadowsweet, and chickweed. |
| Plants thriving on the meadows include oxeye daisy, yellow-rattle, meadowsweet, bird's-foot trefoil and common knapweed. |
| Species present include great burnet, meadowsweet, greater spearwort, tubular water-dropwort and pepper-saxifrage. |
| Honey was used to make a sweet alcoholic drink called mead, which was usually flavoured with some form of herb such as meadowsweet. |
