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 ...

Boneset. It sounds like a potion from the wizarding vocabulary of Harry Potter. Actually, I think that J.K. Rowling included a medicine called Skelegrow in one of her famous books. However, boneset ...

Echinacea, boneset and yarrow are powerful medicinal perennial plants, indigenous to our land. Echinacea has pink flowers and looks beautiful in your garden. You can make tea with the flowers and ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fall-blooming perennials are a joy to gardeners. For the lover of blue-colored flowers, blue mistflower, also known as blue boneset, (Conoclinium coelestinum) fills that need. The growth pattern is ...

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 ...