Results for "folk medicine"
11 pages found.
WillowSalix
Deciduous trees and shrubs with early spring catkin flowers
Salix · Wildflower
Chaste treeVitex agnus-castus
A Mediterranean shrub with lavender summer spikes and aromatic leaves
🇬🇷 Greece and 3 more · Flowering shrub
Kashmir IrisIris kashmiriana
A fragrant iris from the western Himalaya, often planted on graves in Kashmir
🇮🇳 India and 4 more · Wildflower
Porcupine flowerBarleria prionitis
A spiny yellow-flowered shrub grown for hedges, medicine and ornament
🇲🇲 Myanmar and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Plains eryngoEryngium planum
A spiky blue perennial with thistle-like flowerheads and silvery stems
🇨🇳 China · Wildflower
Eryngium
A spiny-leaved plant with blue or white flower heads, grown in gardens and used in cooking
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Wildflower
Browallia
A small genus of blue and violet-flowered plants from the Americas
🇨🇴 Colombia and 3 more · Wildflower
Common rueRuta graveolens
A strong-scented Mediterranean herb with blue-green leaves and yellow flowers
🇱🇹 Lithuania and 8 more · Wildflower
Illyrian irisIris pallida subsp. illyrica
A Balkan iris once valued for perfume and folk remedies
🇸🇮 Slovenia and 7 more · Wildflower
Witch-hazelHamamelis
A winter-flowering shrub with strap-shaped yellow to red blooms
🇺🇸 United States and 2 more · Flowering shrub
HouseleekSempervivum
A hardy succulent with rosettes of fleshy leaves, often grown on roofs and walls
🇲🇦 Morocco and 5 more · Cactus or succulent
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Witch-hazel: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Chaste tree: peganum, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Willow: Jdforrester, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kashmir Iris: Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Porcupine flower: J.M.Garg, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Plains eryngo: No machine-readable author provided. Bogdan assumed (based on copyrigh, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Eryngium: The original uploader was Ramin Nakisa at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Browallia: Photo by and (c)2006 Derek Ramsey ( Ram-Man ), GFDL 1.2, source
- Common rue: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Illyrian iris: Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, source
- Houseleek: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 4.0, source