Difference between revisions of "Knobweed"

Knobweed grewgrows on plains of rock inon the leeward side of boulders.{{book ref|twok|23}} The stalk of the reed wasis immobile, attached to the rock, and can grow as long as a man's forarm. The top of the reed contained a frond that would retract during [[highstorm]]s. During each storm, some would get pulled free and blown to a new location, where they would reestablish themselves and spread. Knobweed also gives off fluff,{{book ref|twok|3023}} forKnobweed somealso unknowngives purpose,off possibly reproductionfluff. Of late, knobweeds have become harder to find around the Shattered Plains,{{book ref|twok|2730}} possibly due to over-harvesting.

The trade of knobweed sap is a lucrative business among the apothecaries supplying the warcamps.{{book ref|twok|27}} The highprinces are unaware that the reeds they see growing are knobweed, so the apothecaries charge a high rate, two [[spheres|skymarks]]. When Kaladin discovered this, he began selling some of the sap he collected for his [[bridgemen]] to one of the apothecaries for money to feed the wounded and to pay for the nightly stew's ingredients. The apothecary agreed, even though he received less profit, because he could claim ignorance as to where the reeds were coming from if the Alethi found out what he and the other apothecaries had been doing. Furthermore, knobweed had started to become hard for the apothecaries to find.{{book ref|twok|27}} In Dalinar's camp, the surgeons and their servants gather knobweed.{{book ref|sa2|5}}