Organic Herbs

Tips for Growing Horsetail Source COMMON NAMES: Equisetum, Scouring Rush, Bottle-brush, Toadpipe, Horse willow, Shave grass, Paddock-pipes, Pewterwort LATIN NAME: Equisetum arvense HISTORY: ...

Source COMMON NAMES: Belle of India, Grand Duke, Arabian Jasmine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Flore Pleno LATIN NAME: Jasminum sambac HISTORY: This plant has...

Source COMMON NAMES: Verbascum, White Mullein, Mullein Dock, Our Lady's Flannel, Torches, Velvet Dock, Blanket Herb, Candlewick Plant, Beggar's Stalk, Golden Rod, Velvet Plant, Beggar's Blanket. Woollen, Adam's Flannel, Rag Paper, Bullock's Lungwort,...

Source COMMON NAMES: Oregano, Winter Sweet, Pot Marjoram, Mountain Mint, Winter Marjoram LATIN NAME: Origanum vulgare HISTORY: The ancient Greeks considered oregano to be...

Source COMMON NAMES: Ash-leaved Toothache tree, Club Tree, Prickly Ash, Wait-a-but, Sting-tongue, Angelica-tree, Suterberry, Hercules-club, Spitberry. LATIN NAME: Xanthoxylon fraxineum, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, Zanthoxylum americanum HISTORY: ...

Source COMMON NAMES: Golden Eternal Flower, Everlasting, Strawflower, Curry Plant, Immortelle, Licorice Plant LATIN NAME: Helichrysum italicum HISTORY: A plant much admired for the...

Source COMMON NAMES: Lemon Balm, Sweet Balm, Common Balm, Sweet Mary, Balm, Honey Plant, Melissa, Cure-all, Dropsy Plant, Bee Balm, Garden Balm. LATIN NAME: Melissa officinalis HISTORY:...

Source COMMON NAMES: St. John's Wort, Klamathweed, Goatweed, Hypericum. Amber Touch-and-Heal LATIN NAME: Hypericum perforatum HISTORY: This flower has been historically used as a...

Source COMMON NAMES: Stonebreaker, Quebra Pedra, Seed-Under-Leaf, dukong anak and bhuiaonla LATIN NAME: Phyllanthus niruri HISTORY: The name chanca piedra comes from...

COMMON NAMES: Commonly known as wormwood , but also absinthe, or grand wormwood. LATIN NAME: Artemisia absinthium HISTORY: This plant is native to temperate regions of Africa and Eurasia. It was...

COMMON NAMES: Also known curled dock, "narrow-leaved dock," garden patience, narrow dock, and sour dock. LATIN NAME: Rumex crispus HISTORY: Curly-leafed yellow dock is a native plant to Europe and western...

COMMON NAMES: Commonly known as cilantro, Chinese parsley and coriander. LATIN NAME: Coriandrum sativum HISTORY: Cilantro is found in many dishes the world over, with particularly presence in dishes from Mexico. Cilantro...

COMMON NAMES: Commonly known as clove. It is the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree. Cloves come from the Myrtaceae family, and are native to India and Indonesia. LATIN NAME: Eugenia aromaticum or Eugenia caryophyllata ...

Source COMMON NAMES: Dandelion LATIN NAME: Taraxacum officinale HISTORY: Dandelions are believed to be some of the oldest plants on the planet. Historians and...

COMMON NAMES: Also known as tetterwort, Garden Celandine, Chelidonium, True Celandine, and Swallow Wort. LATIN NAME: Chelidonium majus HISTORY: A native of the poppy family, this plant is a native of Europe,...

Source COMMON NAMES: Commonly known as Hawthorne berry or May blossom. LATIN NAME: Crataegus oxyacantha or Crataegus monogyna, Crataegus spathulata HISTORY: This plant is...

COMMON NAMES: Commonly known as male fern, this plant is also known as Dryopteris, Wood Fern, Bear's-paw, Shield Fern, Sweet Brake, Knotty Brake and Buckler Fern. LATIN NAME: Dryopteris filixmas HISTORY: This...

Source COMMON NAMES: Milk thistle, Silybum, Lady's Thistle, Holy thistle and Our Lady's Milk Thistle LATIN NAME: Silybum marianum HISTORY: Milk thistle is a...

Source COMMON NAMES: Pomegranate LATIN NAME: (Punica granatum) HISTORY: Historically, the pomegrante has been associated with fertility and ripe health. From the...

Source COMMON NAMES: Commonly known as Soap Berry or Soap Nut Tree. LATIN NAME: Sapindus drummondii HISTORY: Sapindus Soap berry trees, or bushes, are...

COMMON NAMES: Peppermint, Mint and M. balsamea Wild LATIN NAME: Mentha piperita HISTORY: Peppermint is a hybrid cross between the watermint and spearmint. It grows native in Europe, but can...

COMMON NAMES: Commonly known as turmeric, turmeric and curcumin. LATIN NAME: Curcumae Longae HISTORY: This root is highly revered in Ayurvedic medicine, as well as general South Asian cuisine. Native to Southern...

Source COMMON NAMES: Lemongrass, Achara, Citronella, Capim, Fever Tea, Oil Grass, Fever Grass LATIN NAME: Cymbopogon citratusis HISTORY: Lemongrass is a tropical grass that...