Mountain Avens (Driad)
Dryas octopetala
About Mountain Avens (Driad)
Mountain Avens (Driad) (Dryas octopetala) is a herb used in the Russian & Siberian Folk Medicine tradition to help with Fever, Wound Healing, Inflammation, and Diarrhea. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Dryas octopetala (common names include mountain avens, eightpetal mountain-avens, white dryas, and white dryad) is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. It is a small prostrate evergreen subshrub forming large colonies. The specific epithet octopetala derives from the Greek octo (eight) and petalon (petal), referring to the eight petals of the flower, an unusual number in the Rosaceae, where five is the normal number. However, flowers with up to 16 petals also occur naturally.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist