In 2002, Plantlife, a conservation charity, selected flowers or plants to represent each county. Viscum album was selected for Herefordshire, how is it commonly known?
Viscum album Tenbury Wells holds a mistletoe festival and crowns a 'Mistletoe Queen'. Mistletoe is the county flower of Herefordshire. It was voted such in 2002 following a poll by the wild plant conservation charity Plantlife. In 1988, the British singer Cliff Richard released a popular christmas song called 'Mistletoe and Wine'. Mistletoe is an ingredient of pomace brandy based liquor biska made in Istra, Croatia. Mistletoe leaves and young twigs are used by herbalists, and preparations made from them are popular in Europe, especially in Germany, for attempting to treat circulatory and respiratory system problems. Use of mistletoe extract in the
County flowers of the United Kingdom poppy). County flowers of the United Kingdom In 2002 Plantlife ran a "County Flowers" campaign to assign flowers to each of the counties of the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man. The results of this campaign designated a single plant species to a "county or metropolitan area" in the UK and Isle of Man.. Some English counties already had flowers traditionally associated with them before 2002, and which were different to those assigned to them by Plantlife, including the white rose for Yorkshire (assigned the harebell), the poppy for Norfolk (assigned the alexanders), and the cowslip for Essex (assigned