Description: Stevia is a sweetener and sugar substitute extracted from the leaves of the plant species Stevia rebaudiana. The active compounds of stevia are steviol glycosides (mainly stevioside and rebaudioside), which have up to 150 times..
Description: Collinsonia canadensis is a perennial medicinal herb in the mint family. It is native to eastern North America from Quebec south to Florida and as far west as Missouri, although it is mainly found east of the Mississippi River. It i..
Description: The garden strawberry (or simply strawberry; Fragaria × ananassa) is a widely grown hybrid species of the genus Fragaria (collectively known as the strawberries). It is cultivated worldwide for its fruit. The fruit (which is not a b..
Description: Valerian is a perennial plant, about 2 to 4 feet high. The yellow-brown, tuberous root-stock produces a hollow, angular, furrowed stem with opposite, pinnate leaves.Botanical name: Valeriana officinalisCommon names: Garden vale..
Description: Valerian is a perennial plant, about 2 to 4 feet high. The yellow-brown, tuberous root-stock produces a hollow, angular, furrowed stem with opposite, pinnate leaves.Botanical name: Valeriana officinalisCommon names: Garden vale..
Description: Juglans nigra, the eastern black walnut, is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, native to eastern North America. It grows mostly in riparian zones, from southern Ontario, west to southeast South..
Description: Prunus serotina, commonly called black cherry, wild black cherry, rum cherry, or mountain black cherry, is a woody plant species belonging to the genus Prunus.The species is widespread and common in North America and South America.Botani..
Description: Dioscorea villosa is a species of a twining tuberous vine that is native to eastern North America. It is common and widespread in a range stretching from Texas and Florida north to Minnesota, Ontario and Massachusetts.Botanical Name..
Description: Witch-hazels are a genus of flowering plants in the family Hamamelidaceae, with four species in North America (H. mexicana, H. ovalis, H. virginiana, and H. vernalis), and one each in Japan (H. japonica) and China (H. mollis). ..
Description: Stachys officinalis is commonly known as common hedgenettle, betony, purple betony, wood betony, bishopwort, or bishop's wort. The French common name is betoine, and betonie in German. It is a perennial grassland herb growing to 1 t..
Description: Artemisia absinthium (absinthe, absinthium, absinthe wormwood, wormwood ) is a species of Artemisia, native to temperate regions of Eurasia and Northern Africa and widely naturalized in Canada and the northern United States.Bot..
Description:
Achillea millefolium is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is
native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Asia, Europe,and North
America.It has been
introduced as a feed for livestock in places like New Zeal..
Description: Rumex crispus, the curly dock, curled dock or yellow dock, is a perennial flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae, native to Europe and Western Asia.Botanical Name: Rumex crispusCommon Names: Curly dock, curled dock or yello..
Description: Yerba mate, Ilex paraguariensis, begins as a shrub and then matures to a tree and can grow up to 15 metres (49 ft) tall. The leaves are evergreen, 7–110 millimetres (0.3–4.3 in) long and 30–55 millimetres (1.2–2.2 in) wide, wit..
Description: Yerba mate, Ilex paraguariensis, begins as a shrub and then matures to a tree and can grow up to 15 metres (49 ft) tall. The leaves are evergreen, 7–110 millimetres (0.3–4.3 in) long and 30–55 millimetres (1.2–2.2 in) wide, with a s..
Description: Yucca is a succulent that grows throughout the southern United States. This evergreen, clump-forming plant behaves seasonally in desert areas, flowering with the rains, which can be years apart. The tall spikes of the scen..