A flower or plant with cup-shaped blooms used or believed to be useful in treating fever; a folk medicinal herb.
Compound of 'fever' + 'cup.' Named both for its cup-shaped flowers and its traditional medicinal applications.
The old names for medicinal plants tell a story—fevercup, feverwort, feverfew—they're not random, they're a linguistic record of what people thought worked before modern medicine.
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