Ohio Spiderwort: Edible & Medicinal
Ohio Spiderwort, Tradescantia ohiensis, also known as Bluejacket is a plant named after my home state. This grass-like plant can be found in woods and meadows. It has blue or purple flowers that can...
View ArticleYarrow: Edible, Medicinal, Cautions & Other Uses
Yarrow, Achillea millefolium, a true wild panacea. If you’re into herbalism or survivalism you need to make sure you know this plant. Yarrow can be found in nearly every temperate climate in the...
View ArticleTall Thimbleweed: Poison & Medicinal
Thimbleweed, Anemone virginiana, is a plant that was known to tug at a person’s heart, but be warned, because the plant is poisonous. In large doses this plant will cause nausea, vomiting, looseness...
View ArticleNarrow-Leaved Cattail: Edible, Medicinal, Cautions & Other Uses
Narrow-Leaved Cattail (Typha anguvstifolia) is a plant everyone can identify. Cattails have very distinct flowers that look like fluffy hotdogs. Narrow-leaved cattail is similar to most cattail but...
View ArticleCommon Mullein: Cautions, Edible, Medicinal & Other Uses
Common Mullein, Verbascum thapsus, is a medicinal plant asthma suffers may want to know. Though it sounds strange the leaves were dried, ground, and smoked to relieve asthma attacks. Beyond that this...
View ArticleCardinal Flower: Poison, Medicinal & Other Uses
Cardinal Flower, Lobelia cardinalis, is a striking but irregular flower of mid to late summer. Medicinally, the Iroquois considered this plant one of the highest of medicinal plants and they used it...
View ArticlePassionflower: Edible, Medicinal & Cautions
Passionflower, Passiflora incarnata, also known as Maypop is a fruiting vine with a lemon flavor that has amazing and beautiful flowers. The fruit turns yellow when ripe and can be made into a juice...
View ArticleCommon Ragweed: Caution, Medicinal & Other Uses
Common Ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, is a plant scorned by allergy suffers everywhere. But did you know it was historically used by both western culture and American Indians as a healing plant?...
View ArticleColtsfoot: Edible, Medicinal & Cautions
For thousands of years coltsfoot, Tussilago farfara, has been used as a medicine by western and eastern herbalists. In France it was even used as the symbol for Apothecaries. Color: Yellow Flower:...
View ArticleBlack Medick: Cautions, Edible & Medicinal
Black Medick, or known by its Latin name as Medicago lupulina, is a member of the Pea Family. Its lifespan is either an annual or a short lived perennial and the plant sprawls out along the ground...
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