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Walk down the oil aisle and you are looking at five bottles that all claim to be good for your heart — olive, canola, flaxseed, avocado, walnut — at p..

Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) is the succulent, orange-flowered annual that North American folk tradition has reached for after a walk goes wrong — a..

Pau d'Arco is the inner bark of the pink trumpet tree (Tabebuia impetiginosa), a canopy giant of South America whose Portuguese name means simply "bow..

Wild cherry bark comes from the black cherry tree (Prunus serotina), a tall forest tree of eastern North America — and for well over a century its aro..

Red root (Ceanothus americanus) is the plant behind a small piece of American history: when colonists boycotted British tea in the run-up to the Revol..

Lomatium (Lomatium dissectum) — fernleaf biscuitroot — is one of the great medicinal roots of the North American West, and one of the least familiar o..

Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis) is a small woodland plant of eastern North America with an outsized reputation — and one thing about it that any hon..

Sweet violet (Viola odorata) is the small purple flower that scents European woodland edges in early spring — and one of the most quietly remarkable p..

Oregon grape (Mahonia aquifolium) is the holly-leaved evergreen of the Pacific Northwest — and one of the classic bitter roots of North American herba..

The California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is the flower that turns whole hillsides orange after a wet winter — and, less obviously, a long-stand..

The olive tree (Olea europaea) gave the Mediterranean its oil, its symbolism and — less famously — one of its most studied leaves. While the fruit and..

Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) is the tall, silver-leaved plant you have almost certainly walked past — on roadsides, railway banks and neglected ground ..