Materia Medica

Vaccinium arboreum or Farkleberry/Sparkleberry.  Family:  Heath, or Ericaceae Besides having the coolest common name of any of the Vacciniums, as the name

The official Latin name of Evening Primrose is Oenothera  in the Onagraceae Family  It was give its name because as Ms. Grieve states in a modern herbal

Cottonwood, or Populus deltoides The Lakota know them as canyáh’u, meaning “peel off wood,” and the Omaha as maa-zho. Family: Salicaceae family of plants, or

Cleavers,  Latin name is Galium sp. Family: Cleavers is in the Rubiaceae Family.  There are several species throughout N America and our is probably not native, though

Chile Pepper or Capsicum annuum and C. frutescens. Chile is derived from the nahuatl tribe’s name for pepper.  It was misnamed a pepper when Columbus thought it was a red