Editor’s note: Once a month OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Often, the common name given to a plant reflects the ...

Most people in Florida, if asked politely, would probably not be able to tell you the name of a field botanist in their area. Now, there are quite a number of different kinds of people who study ...

"To one whose childhood was passed in the country some fifty years ago the name and sight of this plant [white boneset] is fraught with unpleasant memories. The attic or woodshed was hung with bunches ...

Hypericum – St. John’s Wort – also occasionally called Aaron’s beard, is a genus of plants that have been used since medieval times for a wide array of folk medicines and wound dressings. It is ...

There are a wide diversity of wetland systems in coastal New England: marshes, swamps, bogs and wet meadows, each with their own varieties of dominant vegetation. While most of us can easily point out ...

[Answer: “Late boneset,” “White boneset”, Eupatorium serotinum] * * * John Nelson is the retired curator of the A. C. Moore Herbarium at the University of South Carolina in Columbia SC. As a public ...

Often, the common name given to a plant reflects the benefits early healers believed the plant possessed. Such is the case for common boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum. Common boneset always needs room ...