Motherwort

This bizarrely flowering plant shows up on our farmstead every year, near the foundations of old sheds and in the yard around the house.  Its name is Motherwort. (I finally looked up “wort” in the dictionary and it simply means “a herbaceous plant”.)  A googling of “Motherwort” reveals that this plant has an illustrious medicinal history making me wonder if a midwife might have lived here on our farm in the old days.