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Cowbane was the common name of Cicuta virosa, a poisonous plant. It could be used as a potion ingredient,[3] and a "splash" of what would presumably be an infusion of cowbane was an ingredient in the recipe for Shrinking Solution listed in Book of Potions.[2] Its essence could also be used as an ingredient for Doxycide.[3][1]

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At the end of 19th century, cowbane was grown in the Hogwarts glasshouses and found in some parts of the Scottish Highlands.[4]

During the 1990–1991 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Professor Pomona Sprout grew Cowbane, along with Hemlock and Tormentil in the Herbology greenhouses, in response to an infestation of doxies in Hogwarts Castle in which students were getting bitten and winding up in the Hospital Wing. She had Jacob's sibling, Chiara Lobosca and Barnaby Lee harvest these plants in the greenhouses so Doxycide could be brewed.[1]

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Herbology
study · class
Herbologists
Eunon Blackwood · Astrid Cole · Clifford Cromwell · Marmaduke Dale · Blossom Degrasse · Miranda Goshawk · Alfred Lawley · Olgae Marinus · Beaumont Marjoribanks · Ismelda Murk · Nepali wizard · Gethsemane Prickle · Feuilles Racines · Sanjay Shanker · Selina Sapworthy · Phyllida Spore · Yubert Thorne · Tilden Toots · Hadrian Whittle · Winogrand
Herbology at Hogwarts
Botanique · Herbology Award · Herbology Lesson Cup · Herbology Race Cup · Herbology Store · Hidden Herbology Corridor · Outskirts Greenhouse Caretaker
Greenhouses One · Two · Three · Four · Five · Six · Seven · Greenhouse tower · Outskirts Greenhouse · Professor's office
Professors Mirabel Garlick's predecessor · Mirabel Garlick · Herbert Beery · Unidentified Herbology professor · Pomona Sprout · Leah Lee · Neville Longbottom
Textbooks Flesh-Eating Trees of the World · Ingredient Encyclopedia · One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi · Winogrand's Wondrous Water Plants
Essays Essay on dittany and its uses · Essay on self-fertilising shrubs
Plants studied and grown at Hogwarts
Aconite · Alihotsy · Asphodel · Belladonna · Bouncing Bulb · Bubotuber · Bubotuber pus · Chinese Chomping Cabbage · Cowbane · Dandelion · Devil's Snare · Dirigible Plum · Dittany · Fanged Geranium · Fat cactus-like plant · Fire seed bush · Flitterbloom · Floo · Flutterby bush · Fluxweed · Gillyweed · Ginger · Greenhouse Tree · Hemlock · Honking daffodil · Ivy · Knotgrass · Lady's Mantle · Lavender · Leaping Toadstool · Lovage · Mandrake · Mimbulus mimbletonia · Mistletoe · Moly · Nettle · Peppermint · Puffapod · Raspberry · Rose · Sage · Screechsnap · Scurvy grass · Self-fertilising shrub · Shrivelfig · Snargaluff · Sneezewort · Sopophorous plant · Sopophorous Bean · Spiky Bush · Spiky Prickly Plant · Stinksap · Sugar Shrub · Toad-eating plant · Tormentil · Umbrella Flower · Valerian · Vampiric vegetation · Venomous Tentacula · Walking plant · Wax vegetables · Whomping Willow · Wiggentree · Wild rice · Wormwood
Spells taught in Herbology at Hogwarts
Fire-Making Spell (Incendio) · Herbivicus Charm (Herbivicus) · Incendio Duo Spell (Incendio Duo) · Severing Charm (Diffindo) · Sunlight Charm (Lumos Solem)