Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, NETTLE: yield stinging nettles to mine enemies. Nettles can be painful but they are also food for humans and other animals and provide a strong fiber which was highly valued.
Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, FUMITORY: crowned with rank fumiter and farrow weeds. King Lear crowns himself with weeds rather than crops or high status flower as an indication of his mental state.
Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, DOCKS: nothing teems but hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burr. The Dock is one of the most successful colonisers of unmanaged ground and hence a hated weed of Shakespeare’s world.
