Plants Used in Cherokee Nation

Acer rubrum

red maple

Acer saccharinum

silver maple

Achillea millefolium

western yarrow, milenrama, carpenter's weed

Aesculus pavia

red buckeye

Ageratina altissima

white snakeroot

Allium canadense

meadow onion, wild onion, meadow garlic

Allium cernuum

nodding onion

Allium tricoccum

small white leek, wild leek, ramp

Allium vineale

wild garlic

Aralia nudicaulis

wild sarsaparilla

Aralia spinosa

devil's walkingstick, devils walkingstick, angelicatree

Artemisia biennis

biennial wormwood

Aruncus dioicus

bride's feathers

Asarum canadense

Canadian wildginger, Canadian wild ginger

Baptisia australis

blue wild indigo

Berberis canadensis

American barberry

Betula nigra

river birch

Callicarpa americana

American beautyberry

Calycanthus floridus

eastern sweetshrub, Carolina-allspice

Caulophyllum thalictroides

papoose-root, blue cohosh, squaw-root

Ceanothus americanus

New Jersey tea, Jersey tea

Cercis canadensis

redbud, eastern redbud

Cichorium intybus

chickory, succory, common chicory

Cimicifuga racemosa

black cohosh, black snakeroot, black bugbane

Collinsonia canadensis

richweed

Coreopsis tinctoria

plains coreopsis, Atkinson's tickseed, golden tickseed

Cornus florida

flowering dogwood

Datura stramonium

mad apple, Jamestown weed, thorn apple

Equisetum hyemale

scouringrush horsetail, scouring horsetail, tall scouring-rush

Eryngium yuccifolium

button eryngo

Erythronium americanum

dogtooth violet

Eupatorium maculatum

Eupatorium perfoliatum

Chapman's thoroughwort, common boneset, boneset

Fagus grandifolia

American beech

Frasera caroliniensis

American columbo

Fraxinus americana

white ash

Hamamelis virginiana

witchhazel, American witchhazel, witch-hazel

Helenium autumnale

mountain sneezeweed, common sneezeweed, fall sneezeweed

Hydrastis canadensis

goldenseal

Hypericum gentianoides

orangegrass, pinweed St. Johnswort

Hypericum hypericoides

St. Andrew's cross

Juglans nigra

noyer noir, black walnut

Juncus effusus

common rush, lamp rush

Juniperus virginiana

red cedar juniper, eastern red-cedar, eastern redcedar

Lactuca canadensis

Canada lettuce

Liatris spicata

dense blazing star

Lindera benzoin

northern spicebush, spicebush

Liquidambar styraciflua

sweetgum

Liriodendron tulipifera

yellow-poplar, tuliptree, tulip poplar

Lobelia cardinalis

cardinalflower

Lobelia inflata

Indian-tobacco

Lobelia siphilitica

great blue lobelia

Lycopus virginicus

Virginia water horehound, Virginia bugleweed

Magnolia acuminata

cucumbertree, cucumber-tree

Menispermum canadense

common moonseed, Canadian moonseed

Monarda didyma

Oswego tea, scarlet beebalm

Monarda fistulosa

Oenothera biennis

king's-cureall, common evening-primrose, hoary eveningprimrose

Panax quinquefolius

American ginseng

Parthenocissus quinquefolia

woodbine, fiveleaved ivy, Virginia creeper