Materia Medica

How to identify common weedy yellow flowered

Texas is weird. Growing and collecting plants is a hard call. The most influential factors for collecting plants in the wild are temperature, light, how much rain we’ve

Central Texas Hill Country is a very unique bioregion consisting of limestone and aquifers that bubble up to the surface and back into the ground. There isn’t much soil, or

Gumweed’s official latin name is Grindelia.  Central Texas species include microcephala, ciliata, and squarrosa It is in the Asteraceae  (or Compositae) family of

Oak , or Quercus sp in the Fagaceae Family of Plants.  The word is of unknown origin.  Oaks are perennial tall and stout trees.  Of the 100s of species, several are