Try identifying the flowers and weeds of long ago with their contemporary kindred.
~~"blue
flushing"/grape hyacinth
~~"honey-blob"/gooseberries
~~"St. Peter's
Wreath"/ ________
~~"night-rockets"/ _________
~~"pawnce" or
"tickle my fancies"/ ________
~~"bouncing-bets"/ _________
~~"Jove's Own Flowers"/ _________
~~"clove pinks"/carnations
~~
"lad's love"/ _________
~~"maiden hair fern"/ _________
~~"dusty-millers"/ ________
~~"ragged robins"/pinks
~~"ragged
ladies"/corn-pinks
~~"Queen Margarets"/asters
~~ "canterbury bells"/
________
~~"the Englishman's Foot"/plantain
Reach out to a region not your own and see what their Long Ago's nicknamed their flowers.
Or compare folk herbals to contemporary works on medicine.
