Glycyrrhiza lepidota in the spring which ripen in the fall to clusters of burs which contain pods of small bean-like seeds. It can be used as a pioneer species to revegetate bare or disturbed ground and is often the first species to invade a receding alkali flat. There is a market for American licorice root both for medicinal uses and flavoring; also the sweetening of tobacco products. Glycyrrhiza lepidota Glycyrrhiza lepidota (American licorice) is a species of "Glycyrrhiza" (a genus in the pea/bean family, Fabaceae) native to most of North America, from central Canada south through the United States to California, Texas
Pontefract Friary Pontefract Friary St Richard's Friary, also known as Pontefract Friary, was a Dominican friary in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It was located near today's Pontefract General Infirmary, on the eastern edge of Friarwood Valley Gardens. It was founded in 1256 on land donated by Edmund de Lacy in honour of Richard de Wych, Bishop of Chichester on 6 acres of land at the edge of the town. The town centre was by then already too densely built to offer a sufficiently big building site. Since the Dominicans, also known as Black Friars, were a mendicant order without property, land, building