Incredibly fragrant and aromatic, the cardamon-orange scent of the seeds must have played a large role in making the plant a favourite of hogs, cows and other grazers through the years. In historic records, you can see references to hogweed by different regional names, which suggest both how warmly it was regarded, and also how familiar it was to people. Known as ‘limpenskrimps’ and ‘humpy-scrumples’ in Devon, ‘rumpet-scrumps’ in Somerset and ‘cow-keeks’ here in Fife, today hogweed goes largely unnoticed by the human species and certainly isn’t part of anyone’s everyday lexicon.
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