The annual tradition of blessing herbs on the feast of the Assumption

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The special blessing seeks to increase the natural powers of healing these plants possess.
During the Middle Ages there developed an annual tradition of blessing herbs on the feast of the Assumption, August 15. It coincided with harvest time and was an opportunity to give thanks to God for the bounty received.

The custom arose primarily from Germanic countries, and the Directory on Popular Piety describes it as “a clear example of the genuine evangelization of pre-Christian rites and beliefs: one must turn to God, through whose word ‘the earth produced vegetation: plants bearing seeds in their several kinds, and trees bearing fruit with their seed inside in their several kinds’ (Gen 1, 12) in order … to stem the damages deriving from poisonous herbs, and benefit from the efficacy of curative herbs.”

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More about it: https://aleteia.org/2017/08/13/the-annua...the-assumption/

Here is the thread on a US-forum:

https://www.debatepolitics.com/beliefs-a...assumption.html

Now I will be interested what the US-Christians have to say to that.

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This blessing comes from Germany, and formulas for it are found as early as the tenth century.

The blessing of herbs was reserved only to the feast of the Assumption. Herbs had not our restricted English meaning but included all kinds of cultivated and wild flowers, especially those which in some way had a symbolic relation to our Lady. The people brought herbs to church on her feast not only to secure for themselves another blessed object, but also to make of the occasion a harvest festival of thanksgiving to God for His great bounty manifested in the abundant fruits of the earth. The herbs were placed on the altar, and even beneath the altar-cloths, so that from this close contact with the Eucharist they might receive a special consecration, over and above the ordinary sacramental blessing of the Church.

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https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/...iew.cfm?id=1132

So it is a German invention?