A plant with 'wort' (a medicinal herb), named for its connection to axes or having an axe-like form.
From 'axe' plus 'wort' (Old English for plant/herb), following the pattern of naming plants after their appearance or uses (like 'mugwort' or 'liverwort').
The suffix 'wort' appears in about 100+ plant names in English, and almost all are forgotten now, which means we've lost an entire naming system that made plant identification intuitive.
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