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Yerba Santa - The Lost Herbs Medicinal Plants, Edible Herbs, Plant Notes, Yerba Santa, Mexican Culture, Medical Problems, Garden Spaces, Drought Tolerant, The Plant

Yerba Santa (Eriodictyon californicum) is a native California medicinal plant with a Spanish name that means “sacred herb.” The plant earned its name for its potency in healing many medical problems. This aromatic shrub bears a cluster of creamy white and purple flowers that produces the nectar essential for variable checkerspot butterflies. Yerba Santa has…

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Eriodictyon Glutinosum CalifornicumMountain Balm, Holy Herb, Consumptives Weed, Tarweed Description:Part of the same family as Borage called Hydrophyllaceae, formerly they used to think this plant was more of an independent specie called Hydrophyllaceae. Now they classify them as a sub family under Borage (2.7). Growing 3’ to 9’ tall Yerba Santa has 2 toned lanceolate to oblong shaped leaves. Between the leaf veins under the leaf is very densely hairy with small white hairs, on the top is a…

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Woody lower branches with shredding bark stand erect. Sticky, yellow-green new-growth stems produce lance-shaped, 2- to 6-inch-long, usually hairless leaves. These toothed or smooth-edged leaves are dark green, sticky, and glossy above with hairs between the veins that form a net-like pattern on their lighter-colored undersides. Flowering stalks, lined with 1/3- to 2/3-inch-long tubular flowers that vary in color from white to pink to purple, unfurl like a scorpion’s tail from late spring to…

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