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Absinth Absinthe Absinthium Acacia Acacia bambolah Adam's needle Adder’s mouth Adder's Tongue African ginger African red pepper Africa pepper Agave Agrimony Agropyrum Ague tree Agueweed Ajamoda (Sanskrit name) Ajenjo Alcanna Alder Alder buckthorn Alder dogwood Alfalfa All-heal Allspice Almond Aloe Alpine Cranberry Alpine strawberry Aluka (Sanskrit name) Alum Alumroot
Amara aromatica Amaranth Amber American agave American angelica American basswood American bayberry American bee balm American Bittersweet American centaury American dogwood American elm American English valerian American foxglove American ginseng American ground lily American horsemint American ivy American linden American Mandrake American mistletoe American pennyroyal American pepper American red pepper American saffron American sloe American vegetable tallow tree American vegetable wax American vervain American white ash American Wormseed
American Yew Amla-Vetasa Angelica Anise Aniseed Anise plant Anise-scented goldenrod Anise seed An-shih-liu (Chinese name) Apple Arberry Arbor-vitae Archangel Archangelica Ardraka, fresh (Sanskrit name) Aristolochia root Arjaka in ancient Sanskrit Aromatic wintergreen Arnica Arnica flowers Arnica root Arrow-wood Asafetida Asiatic ginseng Asparagus Autumn crocus Avens root A wei (Chinese name)
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Bablah pods Bachelor's button Balm Balm Mint Balm of Gilead Balmony Balsam Fir Balsam poplar Baneberry Barbados aloe Barberry Bardana Barley Basil Basswood Bastard cardamom Bastard saffron Bast tree Bayberry Bayberry bush Bayberry wax tree Bean Bean trefoil Bearberry Bear's grape Bear's weed Beaumont root Beccabunga Bee Balm Beechdrops Bee’s nest plant Beggar's Buttons Belladonna Bellyache root Berberidis Bergamot Betel Betel Quid Beth root Betony Bilberry Bileiy (Divehi name) Birch Birdlime Bird pepper Bird’s nest Bird’s-nest root Bird's Tongue Birthroot Birthwort Bistort Bitter ash Bitter bark Bitter herb Bitter quassia
Bittersweet Bitter thistle Bitter trefoil Bitter wood Bitterworm Black alder Black alder dogwood Black alder tree Blackberry Black birch Black Cherry Black choke Black Cohosh Black cohush Black Currant Black dogwood Black ginger Black Haw Black Mustard Black Root Black sampson Black snakeroot Black tany Blackthorn Black Walnut Black whortleberry Bladder fucus Bladderwrack Bladona Blazing Star Blazing star root Blessed cardus Blessed herb Blessed Thistle Blind Nettle Bloodroot Bloodwort Blow ball Blue balm Blueberry Blue Cohosh Blue cohush Blue curls Blue dandelion Blue Flag Blue ginseng Blue glabrum Blue gum Blue gum tree Blue Iris Blue mountain tea Blue Vervain Bofareira Bogbean
Bog Myrtle Bog onion Bohea-tea Bola (Sanskrit name) Boneset Bookoo Borage Bowman's root Box Boxberry Boxwood Brahmi (Sanskrit name) Bramble Brandy mint Bride's button Brier hip Brier rose Brook bean Brooklime Broom Broom flowers Broom tops Brown bugle Brownwort Bryony Bucco Buchu Buck Bean Buckeye Buckhorn Buckhorn Brake Buckhorn male fern Buckthorn Bucku Budwood Buffalo herb Bugbane Bugberry Bug dill Bugloss Bugwort Buku Bulath (Sinhalese name) Bulung samat (Kapampangan language) Burdock Burdock Burrs Burning bush Burrage Burrs Burr Seed Burren myrtle Burr marigold Bush tree Butcher's broom Butternut
Caban cherry Calendula Canada balsam Canada-pitch tree Canada tea Candleberry Candleberry myrtle Cankerwort Canoe birch Cape gum Capon's tail Capsicum Cardamom Cardamom seeds Cardamon Carline Thistle Carpenter's herb Carpenter's weed Carrot Castor Bean Castor bean plant Castor oil plant Catmint Catnep Catnip Catrup Catswort Caucasion walnut Cayenne Century plant Chamomile Chandana (Sanskrit name) Ch’e-ch’ien (Chinese name) Checkerberry Chenopodium Cherry bark Cherry Birch Chiang Chih-ma (Chinese name) Chickweed
Chicory Chili pepper Chilies Chi-hsueh-ts'ao Cimicifuga Chimney-sweeps China root Chinese ginseng Chinese licorice Chinese nettle Chinese parsley Chinese rhubarb Chink Chocolate root Chokecherry Choraka (Sanskrit name) Christmas tree Church steeples Cinnamon Cinnamon wood Cinquefoil Circassian walnut Clematis Clodbur Cloudberry Clotbur Clothburr Clove garlic Clove pepper Cockleburr Cockspur pepper Coffee Colic root Columbine Common anise Common arnica Common barberry Common basil Common bean
Common blue violet Common broom Common buckthorn Common bugloss Common field sorrel Common flax Common goldenrod Common heather Common lavender Common lime Common nettle Common plantain Common polypody Common stinging nettle Common sorrel Common strawberry Common thyme Common White Oak Common wormwood Compositae Consumptive's weed Copalm Coriander Coriander seed Cornelian Tree Couch grass Coughroot Cowberry Cow cabbage Cow lily Cramp bark Crampweed Crosswort Culver's physic Culver's root Curacao aloe Cure All Curled dock Curled mint Curly dock Cutweed Cyclamen
Dadima (Sanskrit name) Da-huang (Chinese name) Dandelion Dang qui (Chinese name) Dark grape Daruharidra Da suan (Chinese name) Daun sirih (Malay language) Deadly nightshade Dead men’s bells Dead nettle Deal pine Deerberry Devil's bones Devil's dung
Devil's fuge Devil’s plague Devil's vine Dewberry Dhanyaka (Sanskrit name) Digitalis Dill Dill fruit Dill weed Dilly Dogberry Dogbrier Dog grass Dog rose Dog’s finger Dog-tooth violet Dogtree Dogwood
Doll's eyes Dong Quai Dou fu-tofu (bean curd) Dragonwort Dropberry Dropsy plant Duck's foot Durfa grass Dwarf carline Dwarf palmetto Dwarf sumac Dwipautra (Sanskrit name) Dyeberry Dyer’s saffron
Early-flowering periwinkle Easter giant Eastern hemlock Echinacea Eglantine gall Egyptian privet Egyptian thorn Ela (Sanskrit name) Endive English hawthorn English Ivy Englishman’s foot
English plantain English serpentary English Valerian English Walnut English watercress Erysimum Erythronium Estragon Eucalyptus Euonymus
Eupatorium European alder European ash European barberry European black alder European buckthorn European lovage European mistletoe European wild angelica Eye balm Eye root
Fairy fingers Fairy gloves False Box False chamomile False grape False saffron False vervain False white cedar Fan-hung-hua (Chinese name) Fan-pai-ts'ao Featherfew Featherfoil Feather geranium Febrifuge plant Fennel Fenugreek Fenugreek seeds Fern brake Fern bush Fern gale Ferula
Fever bush Feverfew Fever tree Feverwort Field balm Field bindweed Field pumpkin Finger flower Fishmouth Five-finger fern Five fingered grass Five-fingers Five fingers root Five-leafed ginseng Five-leaf grass Five leaves Flag lily Flax Flax seed
Flax weed Fleur-de-lis Floramor Florida cornel Florida dogwood Flower de-luce Flower gentle Flowering aloe Flowering brake Flowering cornel Flowering dogwood Flowering fern Flower Velour Folk’s glove Food of the gods Foxglove Foxgloves Fox grape Fragrant water lily
Gan cao (Chinese name) Gandana (Sanskrit name) Gan-jiang, dry (Chinese name) Garantogen Garden angelica Garden balm Garden basil Garden black currant Garden carrot Garden chamomile Garden chicory Garden columbine Garden dill Garden endive (Cichorium endive) Garden heliotrope Garden lavender Garden marigold Garden patience Garden pepper Garden rosemary Garden sorrel Garden thyme Garden violet Garlic German chamomile German valerian
Gill-over-the-ground Ginger Ginkgo Ginkgo nut Ginseng Goat's pepper Goatweed Golden bough Golden daisy Goldenrod Goldenseal Gold melissa Goosefoot Goosegrass Goose tansy Gotu Kola Goutberry Goutweed Grape Grass burdock Great bindweed Great burdock Great nettle Great periwinkle
Great stinging nettle Great wild valerian Greek nuts Green bean Green ginger Green Ozier Ground apple Ground berry Groundbread Ground Ivy Ground lemon Ground lily Ground raspberry Ground squirrel pea Ground thistle Grouse berry Gui (Chinese name) Gum acacia Gum Arabic Gum Arabic tree Gum bush Gum ivy Gum myrrh tree Gum plant (Grindelia robusta L.) Gum tree
Hai-ts'ao (Chinese name) Hapusha (Sanskrit name) Hardock Hareburr Hartshorn bush Haw (Black Haw is Viburnum pruifolium L.) Hawthorn Hay flowers Hazel nut (not the American hazelnut (Corylus americana L.) Headsman Heal-all Heather Hedeoma Hedge Bindweed Hedge lily Hedge Mustard Hei-chih-ma (Chinese name) Heliotrope Helmet pod Hemlock Hemlock bark Hemlock gum tree Hemlock leaves Hemlock pitch tree Hemlock Spruce Hemlock tree Henna Henna plant
Hep tree Herb-Carpenter Herb Christopher Herb Margaret Hercules woundwort He shou wu (Chinese name) High angelica High blackberry Hillberry Hingu (Sanskrit name) Hini Hip fruit Hip rose Hip tree Hock-heal Hog apple Hogseed Holly Holigold Holy Herb Holy Thistle Honduras sarsaparilla Honey lotus Honey plant Hood weed Hook-heal Hop fruit
Hops Hops vine Horse Chestnut Horsemint Horse-Nettle Horseradish Hsia-ku-ts'ao (Chinese name) Hsiang-jih-k'uei (Chinese name) Hsiao-hui-hsiang Hsieh-tzu-ts'ao Hsi-erh (Chinese name) Hsuan-hua Hsun-ts'ao (Chinese name) Hu (Chinese name) Hua-hsian Hua-mu Hu-chin-ts'ao (Chinese name) Huckleberry Hui-t'iao (Chinese name) Hu-lo-po Hu-lu-ba (Chinese name) Hu-lu-pa (Chinese name) Hungarian chamomile Hurrburr Hurtleberry Hu-sui Hypericum Hyssop
I-chi-kao (Chinese name) India gum tree Indian apple Indian arrow Indian arrowroot Indian arrow wood Indian balm
Indian chickweed Indian chocolate Indian elm Indian hyssop Indian nettle Indian paint Indian plant Indian red paint
Indian root Indian sage Indian salt (the powder on the berries) Indian shamrock Iris Irish broom Ivory plum
Jamaica mignonette Jamaica pepper Jamaica sarsaparilla Jan-chih-chia-ts’ao (Chinese name) Jaundice berry Jaundice root Java
Jeffersonia Jen-shen (Chinese name) Jerusalem oak Jesuit tea Jew's-harp plant Johnswort
Jordan almond Juniper Juniper bark Juniper berry Juniper bush
Kan-ts'ao Katphala (Sanskrit name) Kelp Kelpware Kidney bean
King's clover King's fern Kinnikinnick Klamath weed Knotted marjoram Kua-lou
Kuei (Chinese name) Kumari (Sanskrit name) Kuo-lao K'u-tou (Chinese name)
Ladies' mantle (Alchemilla vulgaris) Ladies’ glove Ladies' seal Lady bleeding Lady's nightcap Lai-ei-ts'ao(Chinese name) Lamb mint Lamb's Quarters Lamb's tongue Lammint Lance-leaf plantain Lang-tu (Chinese name) Langue de Boeuf Lappa Lappa minor Large fennel
Lavender Lavose Lemon balm Lemon walnut Len seng (Mandarin name) Leopard's bane Leptandra Lesser periwinkle Le-ts'ao(Chinese name) Licorice Licorice root Lime tree Linden Linden flower Ling-t'ung Link Linseed Lint bells
Lion’s mouth Lion's tooth Liquidamber Liquid storax Liquorice Liu (Chinese name for S. alba) Liver lily Liverwort Lofty quassia Lousewort Lovage Love apples Love lies bleeding Lovely bleeding Low chamomile Lucerne Lu hui (Chinese name) Luole (Chinese name) Lu-ts'ao (Chinese name)
Mahmeda (Sanskrit name) Mahogany birch Maiden fern Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Tree Mai-hu Malabar cardamom Malu (Tokodede name) Malus (Tetum name) Maluu (Khmer name) Mandragora Man-t'ien-hsing (Chinese name) Marigold Marjoram Marsh clover Marsh marigold Marsh trefoil Mary bud Mary Golde Mary Gowles Marythistle Master of the woods Masterwort Matè Ma-tou-ling Maudlinwort May
May apple May blossom May bush May tree Meadow fern Meadow sorrel Mealberry Meda (Sanskrit name) Mei-ts'ao Melissa Methi (Sanskrit name) Mexican tea Mexican wild yam Mexico seed Middle comfrey Middle confound Mignonette tree Mi-kan Milfoil Millifolium Milk ipecac Milk Thistle
Mistletoe Mi-tieh-hsiang (Chinese name) Mi-ts'ao Mock pennyroyal Monarda Moonflower Moor grass Moose elm Mosquito plant Mother of thyme Mountain arnica Mountain balm Mountain box Mountain cranberry Mountain Mahogany Mountain strawberry Mountain sumac Mountain tea Mountain tobacco Mouth-smart Mustard Mu-su Mu-yao (Chinese name) Myrrh Myrtle
Nagakeshata (Sanskrit name) Nagara, dry (Sanskrit name) Nagavalli (Sanskrit name) Narrow dock Narrow-leaved purple coneflower Navy bean
Neckweed Nep Nettle Nettle flowers Ninsin
Niu bang (Chinese name) Noble yarrow Nodding wakerobin Northern White Cedar Nosebleed
Ohio Buckeye Ohio curcuma Oil nut Oil nut bark Oil plant
Old man's pepper Old woman Opossum tree Orange root Osterick Oswego tea
Oval buchu Owler Oxadoddy Ox-eye daisy
Paan Padmaka (Sanskrit name) Palma Christi Panax Panay Pannag Pan palm Paper Birch Papoose root Papulu (Chamorro name) Paraguay tea Pariswort Parrot’s corn Partridge berry Passions Patience dock Pauson Pearl barley (hulled grain) Pegwood Pei-ma Pelican flower Pennsylvania sumach Pennyroyal Pepperidge bush
Peppermint Periwinkle Persian berries Persian walnut Personata Phudina (Sanskrit name) Physic root Piao Pigweed Pilewort Pimento Pineapple strawberry Pine tops Pinto bean Piper betle Pistachio Plantain Pleurisy root Plu (Mon name) Plue (Thai name) Plum Pod pepper Poison flag Poison Hemlock Pomegranate
Pond lily Potentilla Pot marigold Prickly Lettuce Priest's crown Prince's feather Prunel Puff ball Pu gong ying Pu-kung-ying Pumpkin Purging buckthorn Purple angelica Purple avens Purple betony Purple coneflower Purple foxglove Purple leptandra Purple medic Purplestem angelica Purvain Pyrethrum
Quack Grass Quassia Quassia bark
Quassia wood Quay-quill sarsaparilla
Queen Anne’s lace Quick grass Quick-set Quinsy berry
Racoon berry Race ginger Rashona (Sanskrit name) Rattleroot Rattlesnake-master Rattlesnake root Rattlesnake violet Rattleweed Rauschert Red bearberry Red bergamot Redberry Red Baneberry Red bilberry Red Birch Red cockscomb Red elm Red gum Red legs
Red paint root Red pepper Red pollom Red puccoon Red river snakeroot Red root Red sarsaparilla Red sunflower Red top sorrel Red trillium Ren-shen (Sanskrit name) Reseda Rheumatism Root Rhubarb Rib-grass Ribwort Richweed
Ripplegrass Rock elm Rock fern Roman chamomile Rosemary Rosemary plant Rosin Rose Rough-fruited Round buchu Round-leaved plantain Royal fern Royal flowering fern Rub cherry Rum cherry Rumex Running myrtle Russian Tarragon Rutland beauty
Sacred Plant (by Native Americans) Sagackhomi Saint Benedict thistle Safflower (safflower is really Carthamus tinctorius L.) Saffron Saffron seed Salacin willow Saloip Salt-rheum weed Sampson root Sandalwood Sandberry Sang Sangree root Sangrel Sanguinaria Sanguinary Sarsaparilla Sassafras Satin flower Saw Palmetto Saxifrax Scaly blazing star Scarlet monarda Scarlet sumac Scarweed Scotch barley Scotch broom Scotch heather Scurvy grass Sealroot Sealwort Sea oak Sea parsley Seaweed Seawrack Selfheal Septfoil Serpentaria Serpent's tongue Serpyllum Sesame Sesame seed Setwall Shan-cha (Chinese name) Shan-yao (Chinese name) Sha-ren (Chinese name) Shatapatri (Sanskrit name) Shatapushpa (Sanskrit name) Sheepberry Sheep Sorrel Shell flower Shen-jiang, fresh (Chinese name)
Shepherd's knot Shih-lo (Chinese name) Short buchu Short-leaved buchu Sicklewort Silver cinquefoil Silverweed Simpler's joy Sleek sumach Slippery Elm Sloe Sloe plum Smooth sumac Snakebite Snakehead Snake leaf Snake lily Snake plantain Snakeroot Snakeweed Snap bean Snapping hazel Soapweed Soft pine Soldier’s herb Soldier's woundwort Solis sponsa Solomon's Seal Solsequia Sour dock Sourgrass Southernwood root Sowberry Sowbread Spanish needle Spanish pepper Spanish saffron Spanish sarsaparilla Sparrow grass Speedwell Spiceberry Spice Birch Spicy wintergreen Spike lavender Spiked aloe Spindle tree Spleen amaranth Spoonwood Spotted alder Spotted thistle Spring wintergreen Squaw balm
Squaw root Squawmint Stagbush Stallberry Stanchgrass Star chickweed Star-leaved gum Starweed Starwort Sticklewort Stinging nettle Stingless nettle Stinking balm Stinking dill Stinkshrub Stink weed Stitchwort St. Christopher's herb St. John's grass St. John's Wort St. Josephwort St. Mary's thistle Strawberry tree String bean Striped alder Styrax Suan-mo (Chinese name) Succory Sumac Sunflower Sunflower seeds Sunthi (Sanskrit name) Sweating plant Sweet balm Sweet basil Sweet Birch Sweet brier Sweet bush Sweet Clover Sweet dock Sweet elm Sweet fennel Sweet gale Sweet goldenrod Sweet Gum Sweet licorice Sweet marjoram Sweet scented pond lily Sweet scented water lily Sweet Violet Sweet water lily Sweet wood Sweet Woodruff Swinebread Swine snout Sycamore Sycamore maple
Taambuul (Sanskrit name) Tacamahac Ta-chieh (Chinese name) Tagara (Sanskrit name) Ta-huang (Chinese name) Tall nasturtium Tallow shrub Tall speedwell Tall veronica Tamalapaku (Telugu name) Tamus Tang-kuei (Chinese name) T’an-hsiang (Chinese name) Tanner's bark Tarweed Ta-mai Tarragon Teaberry Teasel Tetterberry Tetterwort Texas snakeroot Thalictroc Thick birthwort Thickweed Thimbleberry
Thistle Thistle saffron Thorn-apple tree Thorny burr Thoroughwort Thousand leaf Thousand leal Thousand seal Three-leaved nightshade Throat root Thuja Thyme Tickweed T’ieh-sien-ts’ao (Chinese name) T'ien-shih-li (Chinese name) Tila (Sanskrit name) Tipton Weed Toad flax Toad lily Tobacco wood Tomillo Tongue-grass
Trailing bindweed Tråu (Vietnamese) Traveler's joy Tree of life Trefoil Tricolor garlic Trillium Triticum grass Trout lily True chamomile True ivy Tse-lan Tuberous water lily Tu-fu-ling (Chinese name) Tulsi (Sanskrit name) Tumeric root Turkey burrseed Turkey rhubarb Turtlebloom Turtlehead Twak (Sanskrit name) Twin Leaf Twin leaf root Twitch Twitch grass Tzu-mo-lo
Uma (Sanskrit name) Upland cranberry
Upland sumach Upright birthwort
Upright septfoil Uva Ursi
Valerian Vandal root Veeleya (Kannada name) Vegetable antimony Vegetable tallow
Velvet flower Vermont valerian Vervain Vetrilai (Tamil name) Vettila (Malayalam name) Vidyache pan (Marathi name) Vilya (Kannada name) Virginia Creeper
Virginia dogwood Virginia prune Virgin's bower
Wahoo Wake-robin Walnut Water Avens Water cabbage Watercress Water fern Water flag Water Hemlock Water Lily Water nymph Water pimpernel Water purslain Water shamrock Wauhoo Wax bean Wax berry Wax cluster Wax Myrtle Waybread Waythorn Weeping ash Weeping spruce Whahow Whig plant Whinberry Witch Hazel White archangel White Baneberry White birch White bryony White daisy White dead-nettle
White goosefoot White gum White Mustard White mustard seed White nettle White Oak White Pine White pond lily White sandalwood White saunders White snakeroot Whitethorn White water lily White Weed Whorlywort Whortleberry Whorts White endive White Walnut Wild angelica Wild black cherry bark Wild brier Wild bryony Wild carrot Wild celery Wild Chamomile Wild Cherry Wild chicory Wild endive Wild fennel Wild hops Wild hyssop Wild lemon Wild lettuce Wild mandrake Wild plum Wild Rose Wild Spinach Wild strawberry
Wild succory Wild Tarragon Wild valerian Wild vine Wild western thimbleberries Wild woodbine Wild Yam Willow Willow bark Wineberry Winged elm Winter berry Winterbloom Wintergreen Winterlien Winterweed Witch grass Witch’s brier Withe Withy Wolfsbane Wonder-of-the-world Wood betony Woodbine Wood boneset Woodruff Wood Strawberry Wood turmeric Woodward Wood vine Wormwood Wound weed Woundwort Wu-pa-ho (Chinese name) Wycopy
Xiao-hue-xiang (Chinese name)
Yang-mei Yan-shi (Chinese name) Yarrow Yasti Madhu (Sanskrit name) Yellow cedar Yellow Dock Yellow erythronium Yellow eye Yellow ginseng
Yellow Indian plant Yellow Melilot Yellow mustard kedlock Yellow mustard seed Yellow paint root Yellow puccoon Yellow Root Yellow sandalwood Yellow snakeleaf Yellow snowdrop Yellow sweet clover Yerba
Yerba Mansa Yerba Matè Yerba Santa Yeu-ji-hua (Chinese name) Yin-hsing (Chinese name) Yu (Chinese name) Yucca Yueh-kuei Yuma Yu-zhu (Chinese name)
Zanzibar pepper
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