I LOVE this plant, it is so pretty! I transplanted this one into my garden and is doing great. It has such beautiful pea-like flowers of cream and bright pink. It is also called Catgut and Devil's Shoestring.
Goat's Rue is a member of the bean family and grows in hot dry sandy soils, blooming from April thru July.
Roots of this plant contain rotenone , which is an insecticide and also used as a fish poison. Although toxic, Native Americans used it for many medicinal purposes. In diluted form teas were used as a tonic, preventing hair loss, lowering blood sugar levels, treating sores and snakebites. Again, we wonder how they used a toxic plants for so many healing uses. Native Americans and early pioneers planted and cultivated the foliage of this plant, which is high in nitrogen, and used it for livestock feed in winter. They also though it caused goats to produce more milk.
"And they shalt have goat's milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens."
Proverbs 27:27 KJV
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