A flowering plant, also called swallowwort or gentianel, with bell-shaped yellow or pink flowers and slender stems.
From Old English 'fel' or 'fell' (possibly meaning harsh or sharp) combined with 'wort' (meaning plant or herb). The name may refer to the plant's growing conditions or appearance on harsh fellside terrain.
Plant names that reference 'wort' (like mugwort, lungwort, figwort) often preserve ancient herbalist knowledge—they typically named plants based on what disease or condition they treated, though we've often forgotten those original medicinal connections.
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