whitlowwort

any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)

小さな帯緑色の花と通常輪生する葉を持つチドメグサモドキ属の多様な背の低い叢生植物の総称；旧世界と新世界の温暖な地域に広く分布；かつてひょう疽（爪の周りの化膿性感染症）を治すと信じられていた