Description: Hypericum
perforatum is a flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae. The common name
"St John's wort" may be used to refer to any species of the genus
Hypericum. Therefore, Hypericum perforatum is sometimes called "common St
John's ..
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 the ..
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. 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 ..
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 va..
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: Blue Vervain is a flowering plant in the vervain family, Verbenaceae. It is a herb with opposite, simple leaves which have double-serate margins, borne on stiff, branching square stems. The flowers appear in summer and ar..
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 Dako..
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.Bo..
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 N..
Description: Gaultheria
procumbens, also called the eastern teaberry, the checkerberry, the boxberry,
or the American wintergreen, is a species of Gaultheria native to northeastern
North America from Newfoundland west to southeastern Manitoba..
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).&nb..
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 ..
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.Botani..
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 Zealand ..
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 yellow d..
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..
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 ..
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..
Description: Peppermint is a hybrid cross between the watermint and spearmint plants. It has a long history of use as a remedy for indigestion, dating back to Ancient Egyptian times. Mint was so valued in Egypt that it was even used as a form of..