Also called algafita, ge grass, gitanilla, cucillo grass, throat, kidney, porrazos, ladder, stonebreaker, bloodthirsty, minor leguisorba of the rosacea family. Traditionally used as a medicinal plant and for salads and dressings it was the preferred plant of Francis Bacon, the father of English empiricism. It is one of the ingredients of Frankfurt green sauce (grie soss) with chives, eraser, perifollo, sorrel, calf and parsley.