Went out scouting plants today, took some photos. Spring is just around the corner and the early spring medicines and munchies are growing everywhere. Early plants always seem to be loaded with vitamins and minerals, good thing to know.
I was excited to find a new patch of self heal growing by a gravel road. This plant always surprises me, patches of it appear out of no where.
(I and others have posted these plants in detail in N. Remedies and Foraging, just search).
01 Self Heal (Prunella vulgaris) Lamiaceae - Mint family. An ancient woundwart for treating serious injury. Originally from the steppes of Russia. It was used by ancient Romans and Greeks, and just about every warrior since.
02 Chickweed (Stellaria media), edible and medicinal.
03 Purple Dead Nettle (Lamium purpureum) Lamiaceae - Mint family, edible and medicinal. Tiny purple blooms and it's taller than the patch of chickweed it's growing in.
04 Ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea) Lamiaceae - Mint family - edible and medicinal. My only photo was out of focus… didn’t post it but it was growing today.
05 Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) Lamiaceae - Mint family, edible and medicinal. Chickens love the stuff.
06 Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) - edible and medicinal.
07 Cleavers (Galium aparine) - Women’s medicine, especially during child birth. Europeans covered beds with it. Native americans used it the same way, called deer medicine. Deer like to leave their fawns in patches of it on the forest floor, I seen this many times myself.
08 Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis) Another ancient woundwart. The Crusaders learned about it from the Saracens. It was great for treating serious wounds and burns. Little did they know it's real power is super charging kidneys, basically the whole urinary tract.
09 Carolina crane's-bill (Geranium carolinianum) - medicine, very astringent. During the civil war both sides used tons of the root. It was powdered, mixed with water to treat dysentery, the single greatest killer of the war. Just as often it was used to pack wounds, it will stop bleeding.
Self Heal
02 Chickweed
03 Purple Dead Nettle
05 Henbit
06 Dandelion
07 Cleavers
08 Goldenrod
09 Carolina crane's-bill
I was excited to find a new patch of self heal growing by a gravel road. This plant always surprises me, patches of it appear out of no where.
(I and others have posted these plants in detail in N. Remedies and Foraging, just search).
01 Self Heal (Prunella vulgaris) Lamiaceae - Mint family. An ancient woundwart for treating serious injury. Originally from the steppes of Russia. It was used by ancient Romans and Greeks, and just about every warrior since.
02 Chickweed (Stellaria media), edible and medicinal.
03 Purple Dead Nettle (Lamium purpureum) Lamiaceae - Mint family, edible and medicinal. Tiny purple blooms and it's taller than the patch of chickweed it's growing in.
04 Ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea) Lamiaceae - Mint family - edible and medicinal. My only photo was out of focus… didn’t post it but it was growing today.
05 Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) Lamiaceae - Mint family, edible and medicinal. Chickens love the stuff.
06 Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) - edible and medicinal.
07 Cleavers (Galium aparine) - Women’s medicine, especially during child birth. Europeans covered beds with it. Native americans used it the same way, called deer medicine. Deer like to leave their fawns in patches of it on the forest floor, I seen this many times myself.
08 Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis) Another ancient woundwart. The Crusaders learned about it from the Saracens. It was great for treating serious wounds and burns. Little did they know it's real power is super charging kidneys, basically the whole urinary tract.
09 Carolina crane's-bill (Geranium carolinianum) - medicine, very astringent. During the civil war both sides used tons of the root. It was powdered, mixed with water to treat dysentery, the single greatest killer of the war. Just as often it was used to pack wounds, it will stop bleeding.
Self Heal
02 Chickweed
03 Purple Dead Nettle
05 Henbit
06 Dandelion
07 Cleavers
08 Goldenrod
09 Carolina crane's-bill
It won't be spring until late May early June.
