Purple Loosestrife, but doesn't it really look pink?

Purple Loosestrife, but doesn't it really look pink?

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Midsummer Medicines: Volume II

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Harvesting Practices

  • Learn jim's First Two Rules
  • Tools of the Trade: Thoughts of jim

The Vervains: Verbena hastata, Verbena urticifolia & Verbena stricta

  • Did you make your list yet?
  • the flowers of blue vervain

Japanese Hedge Parsley: Torilis japonica

  • Hedge your bets, can jim tell these plants apart?
  • the flowers of Japanese Hedge Parsley

Self Heal: Prunella vulgaris

  • Healing: what a journey it can be.

Ghost Pipe: Monotropa uniflora

  • Where jim confronts his own plant lust.

Maidenhair Fern: Adiantum pedatum

  • What does grey hair mean to you?

Poison Sumach: Toxicodendron vernix

  • Poison Sumach, yes with a "H".

Purple Loosestrife: Lythrum salicaria

  • Purple Loosestrife, but doesn't it really look pink?

Turtlehead: Chelone glabra

  • A world in which a flower looks like a turtle head.

Royal Fern: Osmunda regalis

  • Where royalty wears its spores like a crown.

Boneset: Eupatorium perfoliatum

  • Can YOU say perfoliatum?

Joe Pye Weed: Eupatorium maculatum

  • But really, Joe?

Skullcap: Scutellaria lateriflora

  • I don't need skullcap! Grrrrrrrr!

Goldenseal: Hydrastis Canadensis

  • Goldenseal berries!

Spicebush: Lindera benzoin

  • Where jim spices things up, watch out!

Horsetail: Equisetum arvensis

  • Quit horsing around jim.