buadhghallan

buadhghallan, buaghallan

ragwort, Irish buadhghallan, Middle Irish buathbhallan, buathfallan: "virtue bearing wort"? More probably it is buaf-bhallan, "toad-wort", brom buaf, toad, reptile, from Latin bûfo. The Welsh call it "serpent's weed", llysiau'r nedir. Irish baufanau is "mugwort"; buadharlann (Hend.).