Camelina (Camelina sativa) is an annual plant that grows to about 50 cm high. Today, it has all but disappeared from Swedish territories. But we know that it existed here as a cultivated plant, meaning it was grown (the species name sativa means cultivated) and used by humans, as early as the Bronze Age.

We also know that camelina spread across Southern and central Scandinavia and Southern Finland¹, and that Bronze Age people used it as a medicine to treat everything from wounds and burns, to eye infections and gastritis².

Read the analyses and studies on Camelina Sativa that we reference here >>