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  1. wild licorice, wild liquorice, American licorice, American liquorice, Glycyrrhiza lepidotanoun

    North American plant similar to true licorice and having a root with similar properties

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  1. Glycyrrhiza lepidota

    Glycyrrhiza lepidota (American licorice) is a species of Glycyrrhiza (a genus in the pea/bean family, Fabaceae) native to most of North America, from central Canada south through the United States to California, Texas and Virginia, but absent from the southeastern states. It is also sometimes known in the United States as "wild licorice", to distinguish it from the related European licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) which is occasionally cultivated.The plant grows in moist soils; although it will grow in heavy soil it prefers sandy soil. It grows to 40–100 cm (16–39 in) tall, and has long tough brown roots which are said to be sweet and were used as food and for medicinal purposes by Native Americans. After eating a roasted root in 1806, Meriwether Lewis described an "agreeable flavor not unlike the sweet pittaitoe (sweet potato)." American licorice is not sweet from sugar but from glycyrrhizin. Glycyrrhizin may increase blood pressure (aka hypertension) by interfering with cortisol conversion. The Zuni people chew the root to keep the mouth sweet and moist.American licorice is grazed by cattle, but not preferred and will increase under grazing as competing plants are grazed off. The new growth can be toxic. It has light green to white flowers in the spring which ripen in the fall to clusters of burs which contain pods of small bean-like seeds. It can be used as a pioneer species to revegetate bare or disturbed ground and is often the first species to invade a receding alkali flat. There is a market for American licorice root both for medicinal uses and flavoring; also the sweetening of tobacco products.

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  1. glycyrrhiza lepidota

    Glycyrrhiza Lepidota, commonly known as American Licorice or Wild Licorice, is a species of perennial plant that belongs to the Fabaceae, or pea family. It is native to North America and is typically found in moist or riparian areas. The plant has a sweet, anise-flavored root and can grow up to 1 meter tall. It is often used for medicinal purposes, such as in treating digestive problems, and is also utilized in the food industry for flavoring.

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  1. Glycyrrhiza lepidota

    Glycyrrhiza lepidota is a species of Glycyrrhiza native to most of North America, from central Canada south through the United States to California, Texas and Virginia, but absent from the southeastern states. It is also sometimes known in the United States as "wild licorice", to distinguish it from the related European Liquorice which is occasionally cultivated. The plant grows in moist soils; although it will grow in heavy soil it prefers sandy soil. It grows to 40–100 cm tall, and has long tough brown roots which are said to be sweet and were used as food and for medicinal purposes by Native Americans. American Licorice is not sweet from sugar but from glycyrrhizin, the acid ammonium salt of the tri-basic acid, glycyrrhizic acid. Glycyrrhizin may increase blood pressure by interfering with cortisol conversion. The Zuni people chew the root to keep the mouth sweet and moist. American Licorice is grazed by cattle, but not preferred and will increase under grazing as competing plants are grazed off. It has light green to white flowers in the spring which ripen in the fall to clusters of burs which contain pods of small bean like seeds.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of glycyrrhiza lepidota in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of glycyrrhiza lepidota in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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