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Lady’s Mantle

Lady’s Mantle

Lady’s mantle is a mundane plant with a yellow flower used in potion making.

  • Used in making Beautification or Beautifying Potion (Pm, BoP)
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Etymology

spelled "Lady's" instead of "ladies" - refers to the Virgin Mary as the Lady - and mantle = cloak

Notes

The plant is called Lady's Mantle because the scalloped edges of the leaves reminded people of a woman's hooded cloak, such as that worn in paintings of the Virgin Mary. It has the magical Latin name "Alchemilla" which means "Alchemy," the science of creating the Philosopher's Stone and gaining eternal life. So the ancients felt this flower bestowed blessings and good health, and even gathered morning dew drops from the leaves to mix in potions*.  In Medieval times it was called Leontopodium or Lion's Foot, probably from its spreading root-leaves, and this has become in modern French, Pied-de-lion. Source: botanical.com

*Morning dew is another ingredient in the Beautification Potion.

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Potion ingredients
Abyssinian shrivelfig Aconite Acromantula venom Armadillo Bile Bat Parts Belladonna Bezoar Bicorn Parts Billywig parts Bird Entrails Black Beetle Parts boomslang parts Bubotuber Pus Bundimun parts and secretion Caterpillars Chinese Chomping Cabbage Chizpurfle parts Cockroaches Cowbane Essence Crocodile Parts Daisy Dittany Doxy Eggs Dragon Eggs Dragon Parts Dragon’s Blood Eels’ Eyes Erumpent parts Essence of Insanity Fairy Wings Flobberworm Parts Fluxweed Frog Parts Frozen Ashwinder Eggs Ginger Glumbumble parts
Graphorn Parts Hellebore Hemlock Essence Honeywater Horklump Juice Horned Slugs Horned Toad Parts Horseradish Powder Human Parts Infusion of Wormwood Ingredients jobberknoll parts Knotgrass Lacewing Flies Lady’s Mantle Lavender Leaping Toadstools Leeches Lethe River Water Lionfish Parts Lovage Mandrake Mistletoe Monkshood Moondew Moonstone Morning Dew Nettles Newt Niffler’s Fancy Occamy eggs Pearl Dust Peppermint Pomegranate Porcupine Parts Potion ingredients
Powdered Dragon Claw Pritcher’s Porritch Puffer-Fish Parts Pungous Onion Rat Parts Rats’ Brains Re’em Blood Root of Aconite Runespoor Eggs Salamander Parts Scarab Beetles Scurvy-Grass Shrake Spines Snake Parts Sneezewort Sopophorous plant Spider Legs Squill standard ingredient Thaumatagoria Tincture of Demiguise Tormentil Tincture Tubeworms Twelve Uses of Dragon’s Blood Unicorn Blood Unicorn Hair Unicorn Horn Unicorn Parts Valerian Roots/Sprigs Venomous Tentacula seeds Wiggentree Witch’s Ganglion Wolfsbane Wormwood
Sources
Pottermore Book of Potions