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Tall 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...
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Trumpet Creeper: Cautions
Trumpet Creeper, Campsis radicans, is also known as cow-itch vine because some people experience skin redness and itching after coming in contact with the leaves. For some this is a great vine that...
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Narrow-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...
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Common 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...
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Cardinal 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...
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Passionflower: 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...
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Common 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?...
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Giant Puffball: Cautions, Edible, Medicinal & Other Uses
Giant Puffball, Calvatia gigantea, one of the four safe mushrooms to forage, but forager be warned! There are no foolproof methods for determining edible or poisonous mushrooms. Make sure the interior...
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Coltsfoot: 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:...
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Black 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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