Difference between revisions of "Knobweed"

'''Knobweed''' wasis a fairly common{{book ref|sa1|23}} reed that grew outside the [[Alethi]] warcamps near the [[Shattered Plains]] on [[Roshar]]{{book ref|sa1|17}} and likely other locations.

The trade of knobweed sap is a lucrative business among the apothecaries supplying the warcamps.{{book ref|sa1|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 discovereddiscovers this, he beganbegins 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 agreedagrees, even though he receivedreceives less profit, because he could claim ignorance as to where the reeds were coming from if the Alethi foundfind out what he and the other apothecaries hadhas been doing. Furthermore, knobweed hadhas started to become hard for the apothecaries to find.{{book ref|sa1|27}} In Dalinar's camp, the surgeons and their servants gather knobweed.{{book ref|sa2|5}}