Aaron's rod, 202
Abbott, Dr., 34
abortion, 23
absinthe, 181
Achillea: millefolium, 180-83; ptarmica, 181; sibirica, 181
Achilles, 182
acne, 163, 171, 196
Actaea: alba, 109; pachypoda, 107-09; rubra, 108; spicata, 108, 109
Adam's flannel, 202
adder's mouth, 125
adder’s tongue, 40-43
ag-leaf, 202
Ageratina altissima, 242
AIDS, 208
Aiken, Senator George, 53, 57, 242, 252, 279
Alabama Indians, 231
Algonquin Indians, 23, 24, 154
allergies, 225
Alliaria: alliaria, 39; petiolata, 37-39
alum bloom, 106
amber, 209
amberbell, 40
Ambrosia: artemisiifolia, 237-39; chenopodiifolia, 238; trifida, 237-39
American Botanist, The, 212
American brooklime, 60
American Cancer Society, 70
American horsemint, 163
American mandrake, 99
American valerian, 95
Amorphophallus titanum, 5
analgesic, 118
Anaphalis margaritacea, 62
Anderson, A.W., 95
anemia, 73
Anemone: Canada, 16; European wood, 16; wood, 14-17, 22, 49, 65
Anemone: canadensis, 16; coronaria, 16; cylindrica, 16; hepatica, 9; nemorosa, 16, 17; occidentalis, 16; patens, 16; quinquefolia, 15; virginiana, 16
Anemonella thalictroides, 15
Angier, Bradford, 29, 87, 125, 171
Antennaria: anaphaloides, 64; neodioica, 63; plantaginifolia, 62-64; rosea, 63
antibiotic, 84, 130, 203
antidepressants, 207-08
antiseptics, 55
antispasmotic, 104
ants, 7, 15-16, 42, 49, 52, 56, 71, 83, 139, 278
Apache Indians, 29
aphrodisiacs, 45, 52, 158, 174, 242, 254, 263
Apios: americana, 259; apios, 259; priceana, 258, 259; tuberosa, 259
Apocynum: androsaemifolium, 264, 266; cannabinum, 265, 266
apomixis, 27
appetite stimulants, 84
Aquilegia: caerulea, 33; canadensis, 31-33; vulgaris, 33
Aralia, 47
arbutus, trailing, 17
Argentina anserina, 118
Arisaema: atrorubens, 88; dracontium, 89; stewardsonii, 88-89; triphyllum, 86-89
aristolochic acid, 84
Artemisia, 237
arthritis, 225
artichoke, 249
Arum family, 5-6, 86
arum, titan, 5
asarabacco, 85
Asarum: canadense, 83-85; caudatum, 85
Asclepias: albicans, 141; cornuti, 138; curassavica, 141; incarnata, 141; meadii, 139; purpurascens, 141; quadrifolia, 141; speciosa, 141; syriaca, 138; tuberosa, 142-44
Asclepius, 138, 143
aspergillum, 255
ass’s-foot, 20
aster, 271-75, 277; Alpine leafybract, 272; calico, 271, 274; Canby's, 272; heath, 275; large-leafed, 275; leafy, 272; Lowry's, 275; New England, 273, 274-75; New York, 275; Parry's, 272; white wood, 272, 273
Aster alpinus, 271
asthma, 5, 19, 64, 68, 87, 104, 138, 154, 165, 203, 237, 275
Astor, John Jacob, 44
astringents, 55, 106, 119, 154
Atropa belladonna, 167
avalanche lily, yellow, 43
avens, 211-12; large-leaved, 211; purple, 211; rough, 211; water, 211; white, 211; yellow, 211
Avila, Juan, 256
awn, 105
Aztec Indians, 247
bachelor's buttons, 159
bachelor’s-breeches, 35
Bacon, Sir Francis, 119
bacteria, relation to plants, 145, 278
Baldwin, W.T., 92-93
balmony, 253
bamboo: Japanese, 197; Mexican, 197
baneberry: European, 108; red, 108; white, 107-09
Bantron, 220
Barberry family, 99
Barlett, S.R., 277
Bartram, John, 53, 162-63
bear's grape, 172
bearbind, 131, 133
bearbine, 131
beardtongue, 60
bears, 13, 43
beauty lotions, 51, 81-82
bedflower, 116
bedstraw, 115-16; boreal, 116; fragrant, 115; rough, 116; stiff marsh, 115; yellow, 115, 116
bee balm, 162-63; spotted, 163
bee guides. See honey guides.
Beecher, Catherine, 199
Beecher, Henry Ward, 26
beer, 183, 212, 222
bees, 4, 19, 30, 32, 35, 41, 42, 48-49, 53, 75, 76, 93-94, 114, 132-33, 145, 146-47, 148, 151, 189, 193, 227, 231, 232, 246, 249, 251, 262-63, 272
beetles, 4, 39, 42, 176, 178, 203; dogbane leaf, 266; golden tortoise, 133; Japanese, 181, 226; potato, 166
beggar grass, 194
beggar-lice, 116
beggars flannel, 202
belladonna, 164
bellbind, 133
Bellflower family, 220
Bellis perennis, 102
bells, 33
belly-ache-weed, 234
bennet, 212
benzoin, 56
bergamot, wild, 161-63
Bergen, Fanny, 91
Bernhardt, Peter, 42
berries, 165
beth-flower, 56
bile, 158
bindweed, 131, 166; blue, 166; field, 133; great, 133; hedge, 131-34; hooded, 133; tuberous-rooted, 134
biological controls, 39, 176, 178
bipinnate leaves, 180
birds, 4, 30, 31, 106, 109, 113, 124, 140, 147, 151, 160, 165, 169, 171, 193, 203, 246, 250, 269. See also hummingbirds.
bird’s eye, 52
bird's tongue, 194
birdgrass, 193
Birdseye, Clarence and Eleanor, 200
birdweed, 124, 193
Birthwort family 85
biting persicaria, 196
bitterroot, 266
bittersweet, 166, 167
bitterweed, 236
bity tongue, 195
black cohosh, 154-56
black-eyed Susans, 102, 128-30, 136
blackweed, 238
bladder ailments, 9, 91
Blakeslee, Dr. A.F., 130
Blanchan, Neltje, 3, 14, 32, 46, 53, 56, 59, 69, 70, 82, 103, 107, 125, 132, 133, 139, 150, 155, 169, 174, 186, 188, 203, 211, 213, 222, 224, 226, 230, 233, 246, 265, 272-73, 274, 280
blanket herb, 202
blasts, 256
bleeding heart, Pacific, 35
blister plant, 66
blob, 73
bloodflower, 141
bloodroot, 22-24, 37, 49, 56, 71
bloodwort, 184, 195
Blossey, Bernd, 177, 178
blowball, 25, 113
blue flag, 76-79; larger, 76. See also flag.
Blue Mountain tea, 232, 234
blue sailors, 159
blue-eyed grass, 79
Bluebell family, 220
bluets, 116
bog onion, 8
boils, 16, 63
bones, broken, 81, 244
boneset, 241, 243-45
books, on wildflowers, 284-94
Boone, Daniel, 45
Borage family, 122
Boston University, 38
bouncing bet, 127, 221-22
boys and girls, 35
bread, 87, 248, 258
break-bone fever, 244
breast ailments, 114, 158, 171, 225
Breathed, Berke, 30
Brewer, E. Cobham, 121
brideweed, 228
British Medical Journal, 207
bronchitis, 9, 63, 87, 143, 154, 231
brooklime, American, 60
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 152
broomrape, 181
Brown, Theron, 205
brown betty, 130
brown dragon, 88
brown-eyed Susan, 130
bruises, 63, 104, 203
bruisewort, 222
Bryant, William Cullen, 15, 54, 276, 280
buck's beard, 114
buckwheat, 193
Buckwheat family 193
buffalo bur, 167
buffalo weed, 239
bugbane, 65, 109, 155; Arizona, 155; Mt. Hood, 155; mountain, 155; tall, 155
bugloss, 122
bull's eyes, 73
bull’s-foot, 20
bullweed, 52
bumblebee root, 56
bunk, 159
Burgess, Thornton W., 108
burns, 203. See also skin ailments.
Burns, Robert, 136
Burroughs, John, 3, 8, 22, 31, 34, 35, 40, 59, 91, 97, 104, 123, 140, 146, 170, 190, 192, 218, 222, 223-24, 230, 249, 272, 276
butter-and-eggs, 206, 227-29, 252, 265
butter-bur, 20-21
buttercup, 58, 65-68, 70, 74; bulbous, 66; creeping, 67; meadow, 66, 73, 74; running, 118; showy, 66; swamp, 65; tall, 66
Buttercup family, 9, 15, 32-33, 72, 74, 109, 155
butterflies, 136, 144, 240, 265, 268; American painted lady, 63; Baltimore checkerspot, 252; blue azure, 8; European cabbage, 169; fritillaries, 144; monarch, 138, 140, 266; viceroy, 138, 140; Virginia white, 37
butterfly banners, 35
butterflyweed, 142-44
Butts, Mary Frances, 32
cactus, 268
cadaverine, 3
caduceus, 143
calcium oxalate, 5, 86, 87
California Native Plant Society, 62
Calonyction, 133
Caltha: leptosepala, 74; natans, 74; palustris, 72-75
calve's snout, 228
Calystegia sepium, 132
calyx, 283
campions, 127, 221
Canada potato, 249
Canadian Museum of Nature, 45
cancers, 24, 51, 68, 70, 84, 98, 119, 171, 182, 219
candelaria, 202
candlewick plant, 202
candy, 51, 52, 84, 158
Canel, Dr. Camilo, 100
cankerwort, 28
capers, 73
carbuncles, 125
cardiac glycoside, 140
cardinal flower, 217-20
Carleton, Will, 245
carminative, 84, 234
carnivorous plants, 173-75
carrot, 185-87
Carrot family, 186
carrotweed, 238
carpenter's weed, 184
Carver, George Washington, 84
catchflies, 127, 221
catchfly, 266
cathartic, 98, 99
cattle. See cows.
celandine, 69-71; brook, 152; garden, 71; lesser, 70
centinode, 194
Cerastium vulgatum, 127
Champlain, Samuel, 97
charms, 36, 242, 245, 256, 266, 275
Cheney, Jane, 117, 119
cheese making, 115-16, 149
cheese-rennet, 116
Chelidonium majus, 69-71
Chelone glabra, 251-53
Cherokee Indians, 9, 219, 220
chew-root, 28
Cheyenne Indians, 238, 258
chick wittles, 124
Chickasaw Indians, 183
chicken pox, 182
chicken's meat, 124
chickenweed, 124
chickweed, common, 25, 58, 124-27; Indian, 125; mouse-ear, 127; star, 125
chicory, 29, 114, 157-60
childbirth, 33, 55, 73, 85, 108, 143, 154
Chippewa Indians, 9, 28, 61, 73, 84, 87, 108, 125, 130, 138, 180, 183, 231, 233, 242, 245, 249, 256, 266, 268, 275
chlorophyll, 199
Choate, Isaac Bassett, 61, 91, 126, 208
chocolate flower, 106
cholera, 106, 177, 196
Christ, Jesus, 16, 59, 148, 212
Christian, Caroline E., 52
Christie, Agatha, 133
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, 101
churnstaff, 228
Cichorium intybus, 157-60
Cicuta maculata, 186
ciderage, 195
Cimicifuga: americana, 155; arizonica, 155; elata, 155; laciniata, 155; racemosa, 154-56
Cinquefoil, common, 118; creeping, 118-19; dwarf, 117-19; dwarf mountain, 118; old-field, 118; shrubby, 118; silverweed, 118; sulfur, 265
Cirsium: altissimum, 269; arvense, 267, 268; odoratum, 268; pumilum, 268; vulgare, 270
Clayton, John, 13
Claytonia: caroliniana, 12; lanceolata, 12-13; perfoliata, 13; virginica, 12
clayweed, 20
cleats, 20
cleavers, 115, 116; yellow, 116
cleistogamous flowers, 49, 126, 151, 283
cling-rascal, 116
clock, floral, 113, 158
clock, of seeds, 20, 25, 113
cloth, 266
clover, 42, 145-49; Alsatian, 148; alsike, 148; Dutch, 148; 'four-leaf,' 148; Kate's Mountain, 146; least hop, 149; meadow, 148; purple, 148; rabbit's foot, 149; red, 146-47, 214; running buffalo, 146; suckling, 149; Swedish, 148; white, 147, 148
Clover Specialty Company, 148
Clovis, 77, 78
cluckies, 33
cluckweed, 124
clumpfoot cabbage, 5
Clute, Willard N., 59, 113, 144, 228
Cnicus benedictus, 269
cocum, 172
codhead, 253
coffee substitutes, 28, 79, 116, 157-58, 247
coffeeweed, 159
Coffey, Timothy, 40
cohosh, 109; black, 154-56; blue, 109; white, 109
cokan, 172
colds, 63, 143, 195, 244, 256, 279
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 162
colic, 46, 78, 84, 203, 212
colic root, 85
colicweed, 36
collard, 5
color, in flowers, 56, 66, 96, 118, 219, 232, 277. See also honey guides.
colt-herb, 20
coltsfoot, 17, 18-21, 22; false, 85
columbine, American, 22, 31-33, 65, 155; European, 32, 33; Rocky Mountain blue, 33
Commelina: communis, 188-90; dianthifolia, 190; erecta, 190; virginica, 189
Commelyn brothers, 188
Composite family, 26, 62, 65, 103, 114, 129, 157, 158, 180, 239, 241, 243, 268, 273-73, 283
coneflower, 129; cut-leaf, 129; tall, 129
Conium maculatum, 186
Connecticut Botanical Society, 281
conquer-john, 81
constipation, 28, 106, 125, 158, 177, 244
consumption, 154, 203, 253
contraceptive, 84, 88, 183, 187
contrastimulant, 157-58
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), 44
Convolvulus: arvensis, 133; dissectus, 134; rhodorbiza, 134; scammonia, 133; sepium, 132
convulsion root, 200
convulsions, 9, 200, 233, 270
Coon, Nelson, 6, 197, 203, 258
coon root, 23
corkscrew-plant, 263
corm, 41
corn root, 23
cornflower, 159
corns, 68, 70, 171, 174
Cornell University, 37, 177, 178
corpse plant, 199
cottonthistle, 269
cottonweed, 64
cough medicines, 19, 20, 24, 45, 51, 73, 87, 125, 174, 195, 203, 219, 225
coughwort, 20
cow cockle, 222
cows, 30, 36, 43, 66, 102, 104, 130, 146, 147, 171, 181, 195, 203, 222, 229, 236, 248
cow's lip, 73
cow's lungwort, 206
cowbloom, 73
cowgrass, 148, 194
Cowley, Abraham, 113
cowlily, 73
cowslip, 72, 122, 152
cramps, 233, 238
cranesbill, 105
crazy bet, 73
Cree Indians, 266
Creek Indians, 45, 219
Crockett, Lawrence J., 125
crocuses, 79
crosswort, 245
croup, 87, 154
crow's nest, 187
crowfoot, 106; cursed, 67; water, 73, 74. See also buttercup.
Crowfoot family, 9, 15, 32-33, 65-68, 109, 155
Crowhurst, Adrienne, 87
crowsoap, 222
crusaders, 16
crystalwort, 9
cuckoo plant, 88
cuddle me, 52
Culpeper, Nicholas, 9, 16, 28, 33, 59, 69, 104, 114, 116, 119, 125, 138, 158, 165, 182, 187, 196, 203, 212, 214, 228, 232, 270, 275, 280
Cultivator, The, 102, 116, 228, 270
Culver’s root, 61
culverwort, 33
curdwort, 116
currants, 91
Cypripedin, 96
Cypripedium: acaule, 94; calceolus, 94; californicum, 96; fairrieanum, 95; fasciculatum, 96; montanum, 96; pubescens, 94; reginae, 95; spicerianum, 95
Dahlgren & Company, 248
daisy, blue, 159; brown, 130; bull, 104; butter, 104; button, 104; dog, 184; dun, 104; English, 102; field, 104; Gloriosa, 130; horse, 104; Irish, 28; Maudlin, 104; midsummer, 104; moon, 102; ox-eye, 101-04, 136; poorland, 104, 130; yellow, 130
dagger flower, 78
Dakota Indians, 138, 258
Dakota potato, 259
Dale, Nancy, 60
Dana, Mrs. William Starr, 7, 34, 73, 82, 83, 93, 95, 107, 142, 155, 179, 187, 194, 223, 244, 274, 279
dandelion, 18, 25-30, 58, 113, 114; blue, 159; California, 27; fleshy, 27; harp, 27; northern, 27; wool-bearing, 27
Dandridge, Danske, 23
Darwin, Charles, 151, 173-74, 179, 262, 270
Darwin, Francis, 174
Dasiphora floribunda, 118
Daucus carota, 185-87; pussilus, 186
dayflower, Asiatic, 188-90; birdbill, 190; common, 188-90; slender, 189-90; Virginia, 189; western, 190
de la Mare, 134
Deacon, E., 16
deadman's bones, 228
deer, 38, 42, 96, 152, 214, 225, 231, 245, 275
deer’s tongue, 40
Deland, Margaret, 103, 158
Delaware Indians, 5, 45, 143, 144, 151, 183, 238, 258, 280
delphiniums, 65
dengue, 244
Denison, Elizabeth W., 166
Department of Agriculture, U.S., xvi, 27, 45, 60, 79, 100, 130, 143, 144, 148, 179, 181, 237, 258, 259, 282
depression, 207-08
Deptford pink, 135-36
de Vries, Hugo, 224
devil's apple, 99
devil's ear, 88
devil's flax, 228
devil's flower, 228
devil's head, 228
devil's nettle, 183
devil's plague, 187
devil's ribbon, 228
devil's scourge, 209
devil's vine, 133
dew grass, 174
dew plant, 174
Dianthus ameria, 135-36; caryophyllus, 135
diarrhea, 18, 106, 154, 177, 203, 212, 219
Dicentra: canadensis, 35; cucullaria, 34-36; formosa, 35; spectabilis, 34
digitalis, 61, 108, 266
dioecious species, 269, 283
Dioscorides, 122
diphtheria, 231
Dispatch, Columbus, 39
diuretics, 9, 28, 36, 59, 78, 104, 154, 196, 208, 228, 263
doctrine of signatures, 9, 122, 163, 196, 244
dog bites, 9, 266, 280
dog blow, 104
dog toes, 63
dog's cloves, 222
dogbane, 264-66; spreading, 264-66
Dogbane family, 264
doggies, 228
dogs and cats, 149
dogtooth violet, 40-43
doll's eyes, 107
doon-head, 28
douche, 200
dovedock, 20
dragon flower, 78
dragon root, 88
dragon-bushes, 228
Drayton, Brian, 38
droppers, 41
dropsy, 5, 28, 98, 167, 195, 219, 228
Drosera anglica, 175; brevifolia, 175; capillaris, 175; filiformis, 175; intermedia, 175; linearis, 175; rotundifolia, 173-75; tracyi, 175
Druids, 255
drunkards, 73, 74
duck, 95
Duke, James, 45
dulcamara, 166
dulcamarine, 164
dummy weed, 21
Durant, Mary, 81, 228
Dutch morgan, 104
Dutchman’s breeches, 34-36, 37
Dutchman's pipe, 200
dyes, 23, 52, 68, 78, 115, 138, 151, 172, 195, 203, 229, 232, 247
dyspepsia, 28, 98, 143, 253
dysentery, 63, 143, 177, 183, 195, 212, 219
ear jewel, 152
earaches, 183, 203
eardrops, 34
Earle, Alice Morse, 95, 137, 155, 199, 244
earth apple, 249
Eastman, Elaine Goodale, 94, 147,
Eastman, John, 96, 167, 178, 277
eczema, 70, 143, 171, 225
Edison, Thomas, 231
eggplant, 167
eggs-and-collops, 228
elaiosomes, 15-16, 42, 49, 71, 83, 283
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 33, 158
emetics, 24, 78, 171, 219
enchanter's plant, 255
endive, 157, 159
English bull's eye, 130
enteritis, 78
epilepsy, 51, 115, 195
epiparasite, 198-99
Erigeron philadelphicus, 53
Erynnis lucilius, 32
Erysimum alliaria, 39
Erythronium: albidum, 41; americanum, 40-43; californicum, 43; dens-canis, 40, 41; elegans, 43; grandiflorum, 43; propullans, 41; tuolumnense, 43
esclepain, 138
ethnobotany, xv
etoposide, 98
Eupatorium: compositifolium, 245; fistulosum, 240; maculatum, 240; perfoliatum, 243-45; purpureum, 240; rugosum, 242; urticaefolium, 242
Eurybia: divaricata, 272; macrophylla, 275
Euthamia graminifolia, 233
evening-primrose, 102, 223-25; common, 223-25
Evening-Primrose family 224-25
evening-star, 225
everlasting, 62-64, 90; early, 63; pearly, 63-64; pearly mouse-eared, 63; plantain-leaf, 63
evil spirits, 202, 219, 256
expectorants, 55, 59, 143, 154
eye ailments, 16, 28, 51, 69, 71, 87, 125, 158, 177, 200, 219, 228, 247, 263
eyebright, 200
fabrics, 79, 247
Fagopyrum esculentum, 193
fainting spells, 200
fairy candles, 154-56
fairy-smoke, 200
fairy-spuds, 13
false bindweed, hedge, 131-34
false Solomon's seal, 82
fawn lily, 40-43; California, 43; coast range, 43; Minnesota, 41; mother lode, 43; Tuolumne, 43; yellow, 43
felonwood, 166
felonwort, 71, 166
feltwort, 202
fertilizer, 248
fertility treatments, 45
fetid hellebore, 5
Fetrow, Charles, 256
fever-plant, 225
fevers, 33, 68, 119, 163, 177, 208, 212, 238, 244, 249, 256, 275
feverwort, 244
fibers, 79, 143, 247, 266
Fields, Annie Adams, 182
Figwort family, 60, 206, 229, 252
filius-ante-patrem, 21
finger leaf, 118
fish, 84, 85, 134, 203, 213
fish mint, 213
fishmouth, 253
Fissipes acaulis, 96
fitroot, 200
fits, 73
five-finger, 118
five-leaf grass, 117
flag, blue, 76; harlequin blue, 79; larger blue, 76; poison, 78; western blue, 79
Flathead Indians, 186
flatulence, 187
flavorings. See seasonings.
flaxweed, 228
fleawort, 116
fleur-de-lis, 77-78
flies, 3, 55, 56, 83, 87, 155, 169, 172, 199, 265
Flora of North America Association, 53
floral clock, 113, 158
flour, 193, 256
flowering sally, 177
flu, 24, 143, 244
fluellein, fluellin, 60, 228
fluffweed, 202
flyflower, 35
flytrap, 266
foalsfoot, 20
foalswort, 20
fodder, 247, 248
Food and Drug Administration, U.S., 70, 84, 208, 220
Forest Service, U.S., 139, 281
forget-me-not, 120-23; Asian, 122; bay, 122; spring, 122; water, 121
Forman, Emily Shaw, 263
Foster, Steven, 45
four toes, 63
four-leaf clover, 148
four-o-clock, 225
foxglove, 61, 229
foxtail, 177
Franklin, Benjamin, 171
fresheners, 64
Friendly Botanical Societies, 219
frog's feet, 255
fuller's herb, 222
Fumitory family, 35
fungi, plants and, 93
gagweed, 220
Galium: aparine, 115, 116; asprellum, 116; kamtschaticum, 116; tinctorium, 115; triflorum, 115; verum, 115
gall bladder ailments, 78
gallstones, 28, 115, 158
gallwort, 228
gamma linolenic acid (GLA), 225
gangrene, 56
garget, 171
garlic mustard, 37-39
garlic root, 38
garlicwort, 38
gastritis, 78, 167
Gay, John, 128, 130
gentian: barrel, 278; blind, 278; bottle, 276-80; closed, 278; fringed, 276-80; soapwort, 222; striped, 280; western fringed, 280; white closed, 253
gentian bitters, 280
Gentian family, 280
Gentiana: andrewsii, 278; clausa, 278; crinita, 278; villosa, 280
Gentianopsis: crinita, 278; thermalis, 280
geranium: Carolina, 106; dove's foot, 106; wild, 55, 105-06
Geranium: carolinianum, 106; maculatum, 105; molle, 106; robertianum, 106
Geranium family 106
Gerard, John, 38, 49, 51, 68, 69, 71, 82, 108, 113, 114, 115, 122, 124, 136, 165, 209, 214, 232, 236, 255
German scammony, 133
Geum: aleppicum, 211; canadense, 211; macrophyllum, 211; triflorum, 211; urbanum, 211, 212; virginianum, 211
ghost flower, 199
Gibbons, Euell, 28, 97, 170, 194, 197, 203, 214, 216, 234, 247
Gibson, William Hamilton, 7, 93, 98, 105, 125, 133, 150, 239, 262, 277
Gill, Dr. Douglas E., 94
gill-over-ground, 58
ginger, 20, 83, 84, 85
ginger, long-tailed wild, 85; wild, 49, 83-85
Ginsana, 46
ginseng, American, 44-47, 55; dwarf, 44-47
Ginseng family, 47
Gledhill, David, 60
Gloriosa daisy, 130
Glycine apios, 259
goatsbeard, 113-14
goatweed, 209
godfathers and godmothers, 52
golden Jerusalem, 130
golden marguerites, 104
golden trefoil, 9
goldenrod, 230-35; anise-scented, 232; Atlantic, 233; blue-stemmed, 233; Canada, 233; early, 233; fragrant, 232; gray, 233; lance-leaved, 233; meadow, 233; narrow, 234; rough-stemmed, 233; sharp-leaved, 233; stiff, 232; sweet, 234; tall, 233; white, 234
goldenseal, 55, 82
gonorrhea, 106, 222
Goodale, Dora Read, 8
goolriders, 101
gools, 73, 101
gooseberries, 91, 162
goosegrass, 116, 193
goosethaw, 3
Gosnold, Bartholomew, 258
gout, 16, 46, 187, 195, 196, 203
gowan, horse, 104; meadow, 73; milk, 28; water, 73; yellow, 28
grace of God, 209
grapewort, 109
grass polly, 177
grass-of-Parnassus, 91
grass-pink, 136
gravel root, 242
Gray, Asa, 34, 93, 98, 172, 179, 215, 258, 262
great bitterflower, 73
great ox-eye, 104
green dragon, 89
Grieve, Maude, 20, 29, 38, 51, 66, 70, 87, 98, 104, 108, 113, 124, 134, 174, 185, 214, 243, 249, 268, 281
grip-grass, 116
Gronovius, Johann Friedrich, 13
ground lemon, 99
ground pea, 259
groundhele, 60
groundnut, 257-60; Price's, 258
gum disease, 24, 106
gypsy weed, 60
Gyrostachys, 262
hag's taper, 202
halictids, 109
Hall, Pamela, 93
hangovers, 50, 225
hard-hay, 209
Harding, A.R., 44
Harlan, Kentucky, 170
hare's beard, 202
hare's foot, 149
Harris, Ben Charles, 171, 253
Hatfield, Audrey W., 67, 118, 125, 204
hawkweeds, 102, 114
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 17
hay, 101, 102, 159, 236
hay fever, 232, 236-38
hay fever weed, 238
headaches, 16, 33, 46, 50, 64, 68, 78, 87, 96, 163, 182, 203, 256
heal-all, 58
heart diseases, 52, 55, 63, 143
heart-leaf, 85
heart-snakeroot, 85
heartburn, 78, 114
heartsease, 52
hedge garlic, 38
hedge taper, 202
Helianthus: annuus, 246, 250; giganteus, 246, 250; tuberosus, 248, 249
heliotropes, 122
hemlock, poison, 186; water, 186
hemorrhages, 55, 59, 106
hemorrhoids, 183, 228
Henry IV, King, 121
hepatica, 7-10, 17, 22, 49, 56, 65; round-lobed, 8; sharp-lobed, 8
Hepatica: acutiloba, 8; americana, 8, 9; hepatica, 9; nobilis, 8; triloba, 9
Hera, 50
herb bennet, 211, 212
herb bonnet, 212
herb Christopher, 109
herb grace, 255
herb Margaret, 104
herb of the cross, 255
herb Robert, 106
herb trinity, 52, 56,
Herba benedicta, 212
Herba fullonum, 222
Herba sacra, 255
Herba veneris,
254
herbalists, xv
heucheras, 91
Higginson, Mary Potter Thacher, 201
high taper, 202
hives (ailment), 46
hog apple, 99
hog's physic, 217
hogweed, 194, 236
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 218
holy herb, 255
hoofs, 20
Hooker, Joseph, 126
honey guides, 11, 48, 53, 76, 106, 118, 122, 277
honeybloom, 266
Hopi Indians, 138
horse-cane, 239
horse blobs, 73
horsefoot, 20
horsehoof, 20
horsemint, 163
horsenettle, 167
horses, 102, 104
horseweed, 239
Houma Indians, 167, 233
House, Homer D., 99
Hulme, F. Edward, 121, 212
hummingbird tree, 253
hummingbirds, 31, 32, 151, 162, 163, 203, 217-18, 253
Huron Indians, 98, 247
Hutchinson, Dr. John, 126
hyacinth bean, 259
Hyam, Roger, 60
hydrangeas, 91
hydrophodia, 125
hypericin, 208
Hypericum: perforatum, 207-10; punctatum, 210; spathulatum, 209, 210
hysteria, 5, 96, 115
Ibidium, 262
Ictodes foetidus, 5
Illinois Indians, 183
Impatiens: biflora, 151; capensis, 151-52; fulva, 151; pallida, 151
impetigo, 51
impudent lawyer, 228
Indian apple, 99
Indian balm, 56
Indian chickweed, 125
Indian chocolate, 212
Indian ginger, 85
Indian hemp, 265, 266
Indian lettuce, 13
Indian paint, 23
Indian pipe, 198-201
Indian Pipe family, 198
Indian potato, 259
Indian sage, 243
Indian shamrock, 55
Indian shoe, 95
Indian tobacco, 63, 219-20
Indian turnip, 87
indigestion, 46, 130, 143
inflammations, 19
inkberry, 172
insect bites, 19, 125, 138, 163, 232, 256
insect enemies, 39, 193-94
insect repellants, 23, 98, 103, 155
insectivorous plants, 88
insomnia, 28, 51, 167, 256
Internet, xvi, 281-282
Io, 49
Ion, 50
Ipomoea: batatas, 134; pandurata, 132; purga, 134; purpurea, 131; tricolor, 131
Iridin, 78
Iris, 77
Iris: florentina, 78; hexagona, 79; missouriensis, 79; pseudocorus, 79; versicolor, 76
Iris family, 79
irises, 76-79
Irish daisy, 28
Irisin, 78
ironweed, 255
Iroquois Indians, 183, 219
Ives, Ella Gilbert, 235
ivy flower, 9
Jack-by-the-hedge, 38
Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon, 113
Jack-in-the-bush, 38
Jack-in-the-pulpit, 5, 86-89; northern, 89; swamp, 88; woodland, 88
Jack-in-trousers, 33
Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me, 52
Jacob's ladder, 228
Jacob's staff, 202
jalap, 134, 172
jam, jelly, 138, 162, 163, 197
James, Edwin, 206
jaundice, 9, 28, 51, 70, 104, 158, 165, 195, 228, 233, 253
Jefferson, Thomas, 159
Jerusalem artichoke, 249
jewelweed, 150-53; spotted, 151
Job's tears, 82
Joe-Pye weed, 240-42; hollow, 240; spotted, 240; sweet, 240, 242
Johnny jump-up, 52
Johnson, A.T., 60
Johnson, C.P., 125
Joseph's flower, 114
Journal of the American Medical Association, 207
Juno's tears, 255
Kalm, Peter, 64, 87, 137, 152, 247
kapoc, 137-38
Kavasch, Barrie, 125
kenningwort, 71
kicking colt, 152
kidney ailments, 9, 28, 165, 183, 187, 242, 263, 279
kidney root, 242
killweed, 177
killwort, 71
king cups, 73, 75
king's cure-all, 225
Kingsbury, John M., 108, 172
kiss-her-in-the-buttery, 52
kit-run-in-the-fields, 52
kitten-breeches, 35
Klamath weed, 209
Kluger, Marilyn, 170
knap, 148
Knoll, Fritz, 277
knotgrass, 192
knotweed, 192-97; Japanese, 193, 196-97; prostrate, 194
Kunze, R.E., 200
labellum, 93, 283
lace-flower, 187
ladies' ear-drop, 152
ladies’ tobacco, 63, 64
ladies'-slipper, 152
ladies'-tresses, 261-63; fragrant, 261; green-lipped, 263; hooded, 262; Irish, 262; nodding, 261; northern slender, 261; Ute, 263; Western, 262
lady neverfade, 64
lady's nightcap, 133
lady's slipper: California, 96; clustered, 96; mountain, 96; pink, 92-96; showy, 95, 217; yellow, 92-96
lady's thumb, 195
lamb mint, 213
lamb’s tongue, 40
lambs quarters, 56
Landon, Alf, 247
larkspur, 65, 155, 228
latex, 28, 138, 231
latherwort, 222
Laurance, Ray, 56, 140, 151, 187
Law, Donald, 70, 232
lawns, wildflowers for, 58, 62
laxative, 51, 78, 97, 238, 253
leafminers, 32
leather-breeches, 35
Lee, Penny, 57
lemonmint, 163
Leontodon taraxacum, 27
leopard's foot, 73
leprosy, 16
Leucanthemum vulgare, 100
Lewis, Meriwether, 84, 85, 247
Lewis, William, 208
Library of Congress, 45, 46
Lilium philadephicum, 53
lily: fawn, 40-43; ground, 56; harvest, 133; hedge, 133; liver, 78; snake, 78; trinity, 56; trout, 40-43; yellow, 40
Lily family, 56, 80
Linaria vulgaris, 227-29, 265
liniment, 87
Linnaeus, Carolus, 16-17, 53, 55, 104, 109, 128-29, 138, 183, 188, 259
linoleic acid, 249
lion's mouth, 228
lion’s tooth, 28
little boy’s breeches, 35
live-forever, 64
liveman, 116
liver ailments, 9, 70, 78, 98, 114, 125, 177, 183, 228, 270
liver-moss, 9
liverleaf, 9
liverwort, 9
Llewelyn’s herb, 60
Lloyd, John Uri, 220
lluellin, 60
L'Obel, Matthias, 220
lobelia: great blue, 219; pale-spike, 220; red, 217
Lobelia: cardinalis, 217-20; inflata, 219-20; spicata, 220; siphilitica, 219
lobeline, 220
Lombard, Lucinda Haynes, 212
London pride, 222
Longfellow, Henry W., 77, 121
loosestrife: California, 176; Florida, 176; purple, 176-79; yellow, 177; whorled, 177
Louis VII, King, 77
lousewort, Furbish's, 206
love potions, 45, 52, 67, 183, 187, 219
love idol, 52
love’s nest, 63
love-lies-bleeding, 52
love-me, 121
Lowell, James Russell, 26, 30, 67
Lubbock, Sir John, 53, 114, 123
lunacy, 68
lung ailments, 16, 19, 24, 81, 138, 143, 149, 183, 202, 249
lungwort, 202, 206
Lust, John, 125, 143, 228
Lycopersicum esculentum, 167
Lysichiton americanus, 5
Lythrum, winged, 176
Lythrum: alatum, 176; californicum, 176; flagellare, 176; salicaria, 176-79
macaroni, 77
mackerel mint, 213
madder, 115
Madder family 116
Maianthemum racemosa, 82
maidshair, 116
malaria, 87
Malecite Indians, 253
man-under-ground, 132
mandrake, 99
Mangosteen family, 209-10
marigold, marsh, 21, 72-75
marlgrass, 148
marsh marigold, 72-75; floating, 74; white, 74
marsh turnip, 88
Marybuds, 73
Mather, Rev. Cotton, 70
Mathews, F. Schuyler, 7, 23, 33, 34, 62, 82, 93, 107, 115, 116, 123, 131, 137, 200, 217, 221, 230, 233, 234, 239, 241, 245, 264-65, 277
maudlinwort, 104
May apple, 97-100
May blobs, 73
May-flower, 90
meadow cabbage, 5
meadowbouts, 73
measles, 182
meat tenderizer, 138
Medsger, Oliver Perry, 170
meeting houses, 33
Melilotus, 149
Menominee Indians, 5, 36, 98, 143, 183
menopause, 154
Mentha: aquatica, 216; arvensis, 213, 215; piperita, 215, 216; spicata, 213-16; viridis, 215
Merremia dissecta, 134
Meskwaki Indians, 16, 33, 45, 84, 85, 108, 183, 219, 232, 233, 275
Meyer, Joseph and Clarence, 125
Meyers-Rice, Barry, 281
Miami Indians, 183
Micmac Indians, 5, 183
microspecies, 27
Midas ears, 5
milfoil, 180
milfoil tea, 182-83
milk, breast, 138
milk gowan, 28
milkthistle, blessed, 270
milkweed, 137-41; common, 137; four-leaved, 141; marsh, 242; Mead's, 139; purple, 141; showy, 141; swamp, 138, 141; wandering, 266; white-stemmed, 141
Milkweed family, 139
Millspaugh, Charles F., 26, 28, 47, 66-67, 73, 138, 143, 154, 171, 199, 223, 244
miners’ lettuce, 13
mint: brown, 215; common, 215; green, 215; Our Lady's, 215; spire, 215; water, 216; wild, 213
Mint family, 161, 213-16
mint sauce, 214
Mithridates Eupator, 241, 242, 243
mitreworts, 91
Miwok Indians, 144
moccasin flower, 93
mock orange, 91
mock-gilliflower, 222
Mohammed, 51
Mohawk Indians, 66, 183
Mohegan Indians, 23, 45, 63, 87, 268
Mohlenbrock, Robert H., 258
Moldenke, Dr. Harold, 5, 48, 88, 217
mollyblobs, 73
Monarda: didyma, 162-63; fistulosa, 161-63; punctata, 163;
Monardella macrantha, 163
Monardes, Nicolas, 161, 163
moneywort, 177
monk’s head, 27, 35
monkeyflower, 60
monophagous insects, 39
Monotropa: hypopithys, 198; uniflora, 198-201
monotypic species, 71, 283
Montagnais Indians, 84
moon flower, 104, 133
moon penny, 104
moonshine, 64
moonwort, 174
Moore, John, 75, 248
More, Thomas, 4
morning glory, 131
Morning Glory family, 131-32
motherwort, 242
moths, 32, 205, 221, 223, 265, 277; crepuscular, 132; gypsy, 178; iris borer, 78; sphinx, 132, 221; yellow-banded wasp, 133
mourning doves, 169
mouse-ears, 9
Moxie, 277
Muehlenberg, Heinrich, 194
Mueller, Fritz, 138
Muellerian mimicry, 138
Muenscher, Walter Conrad, 108
Muir, John, 123
mullein, 60, 202-06, 229; common, 204-06; great, 202-06; moth, 205; purple, 205
mullein tea, 203
multiple sclerosis, 225, 249
mumps, 203
mutants, mutations, 224
mustard, garlic, 37-39
Mustard family, 37-39
mustard root, 38
Myosotis: alpestris, 122; laxa, 122; scorpioides, 121; verna, 122
myrmecochory, 7, 15-16, 42, 49, 52, 56, 71, 83, 283
Nanticoke Indians, 5, 151, 238
Napoleon, 50-51
narcotics, 167, 171, 203, 219
National Institutes of Health, 207
National Park Service, 37, 282
native plant nurseries, 12
natural enemies, 37-38
Nature Conservancy, The, 178
National Sunflower Association, 247, 248
nausea, 231
necklace weed, 109
nectar, 75, 122, 147, 193, 277
nerve root, 95
nervines, 220, 275
Nesom, Guy, 271
neuralgia, 106
New England Wild Flower Society, 282
New York Botanical Garden, 5, 88, 217
New York Times, 242, 277
nightshade, American, 170; bittersweet, 164-67; black, 166; climbing, 164-67; deadly, 164, 166, 167; garden, 166; silver-leaf, 167; woody, 166
Nightshade family, 167
nine-joints, 194
nitrogen, 145
Noah's ark, 95
none-so-pretty, 64
noonflower, 113
North American Native Plant Society, 282
nosebleed (ailment), 56, 61, 182, 219, 256
nosebleed (plant), 56
Nova Scotia Agricultural College, 199
noyau, 134
nurseries, native plant, 12
Nutting, Wallace, 25
obesity, 78, 125
obligate plants, 4
Oenothera: biennis, 225; rosea, 225
Ojibwa Indians, 16, 108, 183, 225, 242, 247, 275
old maid's nightcap, 106
old man's nightcap, 133
old man's pepper, 183
Oligoneuron rigidum, 232
Olson, A. Randall, 199
Omaha Indians, 258
Onopordum acanthium, 269
opium, 24
Orchid family, 79, 92-96, 261, 262
orris root, 78
Osage Indians, 87, 258
Oswego tea, 162
Our Lady's flannel, 202
Ovid, 214
Oxford English Dictionary, 73, 85
pain relievers, 51, 118
palsywort, 73
Panax: quinquefolius, 44-47; schin-seng, 44; trifolius, 46
Pankhurst, Richard, 60
pansies, 51
pappus, 63, 137, 140, 283
paralysis, 63, 98
parasites, 198
Parkinson, John, 182, 214
Parsnip family, 186
parson in a pillory, 5
Parsons, Frances Theodora, 155
pasque flowers, 16
passenger pigeon, 169
patten and clogs, 228
Paul’s betony, 60
Pawnee Indians, 87, 258
Pea family 146
pear vine, 133
Peattie, Donald Culross, 271
pelargonium geraniums, 105
Pellett, Frank C., 12, 250
penny-hedge, 38
Penobscot Indians, 143
peony flowers, 23
pepper turnip, 88
peppermint, 215
pepperplant, 195
peppers, 167
Percival, James Gates, 15
percum-leaves, 209
perfumes, 52, 78, 79, 84, 163, 213-14
Peter's rod, 202
Peterson, Lee Allen, 87
Peterson, Roger Tory, 217, 274
Pharmacopoeia, U.S., 78, 96, 138, 143, 154, 171, 183, 234, 243, 266, 283
Pharmaton Natural Health Products, 46
phlebitis, 19
Phytolacca: americana, 168-72; decantra, 172
pig potato, 259
pigeon grass, 255
pigeon-berry, 169
pigrush, 194
pigtail, 116
pigweed, 194
piles, 70, 81
Pilgrims, 258
pinesap, 198, 199
pink: chimney, 222; Deptford, 135-36; hedge, 222; old maid's, 222
Pink family, 127, 135, 221
pink-eyed john, 52
Pinkham, Lydia E., 155
pinkweed, 194
pissenlit, 28
pistil, 283
pitcher plants, 175
Piute Indians, 183
plague, 68
plantain, white, 63
Plant Conservation Alliance, 282
Plants Database, USDA, xvi, 282
pleurisy, 51, 143
pleurisy root, 142
Pliny, 71, 85
pneumonia, 68, 154
pocan, 168, 172
pocanbush, 24
pocketdrop, 152
podophyllin, 98
podophyllotoxin, 98, 100
Podophyllum: hexandrum, 99; peltatum, 97-100
poison ivy treatments, 82, 150-51, 222, 238
poisonflower, 166
poisons, 98, 108, 138 164, 167, 172, 186, 212, 228-29, 242, 266
pokan, 24
poke, 167-72
poke-root, 24
pokeweed, 24, 168-72
polecatweed, 5
Polhamus, L.G., 231
polk, 171
polkweed, 5
pollen, 123, 236-39, 263. See also pollination.
pollination, 3-4, 14, 24, 32, 49, 56, 59, 63, 65-66, 75, 76, 80, 83, 87-88, 93-94, 97, 103, 106, 122-23, 129, 132, 139-40, 147, 151, 161-62, 179, 199, 215-16, 217, 236-37, 251-52, 262-63. See also self-pollination, bees, flies and hummingbirds.
pollinia, 139
pollinosis, 238
Polygonatum: biflorum, 80-82; cobrense, 81; commutatum, 80; hirsutum, 81; multiflorum, 81-82; pubescens, 81
Polygonum: amphibium, 195; aviculare, 192, 193; cespitosum, 193; cuspidatum, 196-97; hydropiper, 195; hydropiperoides, 195; muhlenbergii, 194; pensylvanicum, 53, 192; persicaria, 195; sagittatum, 194
poor man’s mustard, 38
poorweed, 116
Poppy family, 23, 36, 71
Portulaca family, 13
postage stamps, wildflower, 19, 247
potato, 164, 167, 258
potato bean, 259
Potato family 167
Potawatomi Indians, 84, 108, 242
Potentilla: anserina, 118; canadensis, 117-19; fruticosa, 118; recta, 265; reptans, 118-19; robbinsiana, 118; simplex, 118
poultices, 5, 43, 51, 63, 78, 82, 125, 151, 158, 231, 238, 242, 247
poverty weed, 63, 104
prairie smoke, 211
Pratt, Anne, 66
praying mantis, 231
Preacher, James, 108
preservatives, 84
pretty maids, 89
Price, Sadie, 258
Price's groundnut, 259
priest’s crown, 27
priest's pintle, 88
Primack, Richard B., 38, 93
protandric, 252
protopine, 24
psoriasis, 171
Puck's foot, 99
puccoon, 23, 122
puffball, 28
pukeweed, 220
purgative, 98, 99, 133, 134, 172
purple grass, 177
purple willowherb, 177
Purslane family, 13
purvain, 255
pussies, 149
pussy clover, 149
pussytoes, 62-64; pearly, 64; plantain-leaved, 63; rosy, 63; smaller, 63
Pye, Joe, 240
pyrethrum, 103
Queen Anne's lace, 185-87
queen of the meadow, 242
Quick, Arthur Craig, 33, 200-01, 225
quillwort, 242
rabbit's weed, 228
rabbits (plant), 228
raceme, 82
raccoon berry, 99
ragged sailors, 159
ragged-robin, 127, 221
ragweed, common, 236-39; great, 236-39; San Diego bur, 238
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 258
rampion, German, 224
ranges, for wildflowers, xv-xvi
ranstead, 228
rantipole, 187
Ranunculus: acris, 66; bulbosus, 66; ficaria, 70, 71; hispidus, 65; repens, 67; scleratus, 67
Rappahannock Indians, 167
rattlesnakeweed, 186
rattletop, 154
Raudot, A.T., 98
red benjamin, 56
red betty, 217
red dot, 174
red knees, 195
red monardella, 163
red robin, 194
red root, 23
red sally, 177
red-ink plant, 172
redroot, 211
redshanks, 195
redweed, 172
Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 269
refrigerant, 280
rheumatism, 5, 51, 143, 154, 165, 171, 196, 244, 266
rheumatismwood, 266
rhizoctonia fungi, 93
rhizome, 78
rhodium, oil of, 134
ringworm, 23, 70, 171, 203, 244
Roberts, June Carver, 11
rock bells, 33
rock lily, 33
rockfoil, 90
rockweed, 5, 106
Roelofson, Emily Bruce, 122
rope, string, 79, 266
Rose family, 117, 211
rose sundrops, 225
rosin weed, 209
Rudbeck, Olaus, Sr. and Jr., 128
Rudbeckia: fulgida, 130; hirta, 128-30; laciniata, 129; tetra, 130
rue-anemone, 14-17
Saftmal, 122
sailor's knot, 106
St. Anthony's turnip, 66
St. Benedict, 212
St. John's grass, 209
St. Johnswort, 102, 207-10; common, 207-10; shrubby, 209, 210; spotted, 210
St. Mary's herb, 215
salad greens, 12, 29, 39, 51, 60, 84, 91, 116, 125, 157, 159, 163, 170, 189, 268, 275
salicare, 177
salsify, 114; yellow, 114
salt-rheum weed, 253
sang diggers, 44-45
Sanguinaria canadensis, 22-24
sanguinary, 184
Saponaria: officinalis, 221; vaccaria, 222
saponin, 222
saprophite, 198
Sarrazin, Michel, 98, 108
sarsaparilla, 47
Satin, 212
satinflower, 125
sauce alone, 38
sauces, 38
Saunders, Charles F., 97, 222, 234
Saxifraga: granulata, 91; micranthidifolia, 91; oppositifolia, 90; pensylvanica, 91; virginiensis, 90
saxifrage, 90-91; early, 90; European meadow, 91; lettuce, 91; purple mountain, 90; spring, 90; swamp, 91
Saxifrage family, 91
scabish, 225
scammony, 133-34
scape, 283
scarlet fever, 24
scarletberry, 166
scent, 3-4, 8, 52, 56, 78, 93, 97, 116, 155, 199, 212, 221, 258
sciatica, 196, 275
Schemske, Douglas, 42
scoke, 172
scorpion bites, 122
scorpion-grass, marsh, 121; mouse-ear, 121
Scott, Sir Walter, 50
scratch-grass, 116
screw-auger, 263
scrofula, 40, 43, 59, 61, 70, 78, 138, 266
scrofula root, 40
scurvish, 225
sealwort, 81
seasonings, food, 19, 54-55, 84, 149, 183, 186, 187, 212, 213, 214-15
seasons, for wildflowers, xvi
sedative, 154, 220
seed bank, 39
seeds, 7, 15-16, 42, 49, 71, 93, 94-95, 103, 105-06, 113, 116, 124, 126, 140-41, 150, 152, 186, 269
self-pollination, 19, 24, 59, 63, 169, 241
Semple, John C., 274
Seneca Indians, 247
sepals, 42, 283
serpent’s tongue, 40
Shakers, 275
Shakespeare, 50, 51, 52, 66, 73-74, 78, 99, 102, 147, 177, 279
shameface, 106
shampoo, 222
shamrock, 149
Shawnee Indians, 87
sheepweed, 222
shellflower, 253
shepherd's club, 202
shining-grass, 152
Shiraz, 121
shoe of Mary, 93
sickleweed, 195
sightwort, 71
Silene pensylvanica, 53
silver cap, 152
silverbutton, 64
silverleaf, 64, 152
silverrod, 234
silverweed, 118, 152
Silybum marianum, 270
simpler's joy, 255, 256
simplers, 256
sinkfield, 118
sinus ailments, 78
Sioux Indians, 138, 143, 258
Sipes, Sedonia, 263
Sisymbrium alliaria, 39
skatole, 3
skin ailments, 23, 36, 55, 59, 70, 78, 151, 163, 165, 167, 222, 225, 253, 263, 275, 279
Skinner, Charles M., 45, 74, 208, 262, 270
skirt and buttons, 125
skoke, 172
skunk cabbage, 3-6, 9, 17; American, 5; yellow, 5; skunkweed, 5
sleep inducers, 23, 28, 50
slinkweed, 217
slipper root, 95
slipperweed, 152
smallpox, 143
smartweed, amphibious swamp, 195; long-bristled, 193-95; longroot, 195; Pennsylvania, 192, 194; shoestring, 194; smarting, 195; swamp, 194
Smilacina racemosa, 82
Smith, H.A., 60
Smith, Huron H., 36
Smith, Capt. John, 52, 97
snake grass, 121
snakeberry, 166
snakebite (plant), 23, 108
snakebites, 55, 122, 154, 244, 256, 275
snakehead, 253
snakeroot, 40, 65, 241; black, 154; Canada, 85; Vermont, 85; white, 242; whiteberry, 109
snakeweed, 195
snapdragon, 152, 206, 227, 228
snapweed, 152
sneezewort, 181
soap, 79, 222
soaproot, 222
soapwort, 222
soil conditioners, 145, 238, 239, 248
solanine, 164
Solanum: americanum, 166; dulcamara, 164-67; elaeagnifolium, 167; melongena, 167; nigrum, 166; rostratum, 167; tuberosum, 167
soldier buttons, 73
soldier’s cap, 34
Solidago: altissima, 233; arguta, 233; bicolor, 234; caesia, 233; californica, 231; canadensis, 233; graminifolia, 233; juncea, 233; nemoralis, 233; odora, 232, 234; rigida, 232; rugosa, 233; simlex, 234; spathulata, 234; virgaurea, 232
Solomon's plume, 82
Solomon's seal, 80-82; broadleaf, 81; dwarf, 81; false, 82; giant, 81; great, 80; hairy, 81; McKittrick's, 81; smooth, 81
solsequia, 73
sore throat, 24, 33, 63, 87, 106, 163, 177, 212, 231
soup, 247
sowfoot, 20
spadix, 86, 87
sparrow tongue, 194
spathe, 4, 86, 87, 88
Spathyema foetida, 5
spearmint, 213-16
speckled jewels, 152
speedwell, 58-61, 206, 229; American, 60; bird’s eye, 60; common, 58-61; corn, 60; Cusick’s, 60; slender, 60; spiked, 59; thyme-leaved, 60; water, 60
Spellenberg, Richard, 165
Spencer, Edwin Rollin, 132, 256, 267
spiders, 4
Spiderwort family, 189
spiderworts, 161, 189
spiked soldiers, 177
spikenards, 47, 85
spines, 268
Spiranthes: cernua, 261, 263; diluvialis, 263; lacera, 261, 263; odorata, 261; porrifolia, 262; romanzoffiana, 262
spleen ailments, 158
sprains, 63
Sprengel, Christian, 106, 122
spring beauty, 9
spring-beauty, 11-13, 17, 37; Carolina, 12
squawroot, 154
squirrel corn, 35
squirrel cup, 9
Stack, Frederic William, 7, 9, 34, 74
stamen, 283
stammerwort, 238
staphylococcus infections, 130
star of Jerusalem, 114
starch, 87
starchwort, 88
starflower, 118
starstriker, 40
starweed, 125
starwort, 125
staunchweed, 184
Steffek, Edwin, 245, 278
Stellaria media, 124-27
Steyermark, Julian and Cora, 8
stick-a-back, 116
stickweed, 238
stickywilly, 116
stigma, 283
stinking benjamin, 56
stitchwort, 124
stolon, 67
stomach ailments, 28, 43, 46, 78, 81, 84, 114, 195, 212, 214, 231, 280
stomata, 20, 146
stonecrops, 91
storksbill, 106
strawberry, barren, 118
stress, 45
stuffing, pillow, 137
sturgeon plant, 84
sturgeon potato, 84
Sturtevant, Edward Lewis, 38, 125, 186, 214
styptic, 106
succory, 158
sugar plums, 148
sundew: dwarf, 175; pink, 175; round-leaf, 173-75; slender-leaf, 175; spoon-leaf, 175; thread-leaf, 175; Tracy's, 175
sunflower, 246-50; common, 246, 250; giant, 246, 250; mammoth, 247; Russian, 247; tall, 246, 250
sunflower cookies, 247
style, 283
Swain, Ralph B., 133
swallowwort, 71
swamp cabbage, 5
sweating plant, 244
sweet betty, 222
sweet clover, white, 149; yellow, 149
sweet potato, 134
sweet William, wild, 222
sweet Wilson, 91
sweethearts, 116
swine's grass, 194
swine’s snout, 26
Symonds, George W.D., 196
Symphyotrichum: foliaceum, 272; lateriflorum, 273, 274; novae-angliae, 274-75; novi-belgii, 275
Symplocarpus foetidus, 3-6
syphilis, 78, 219, 220, 222, 266
Tallant, Robert, 82
tannin, 106, 118, 119
tansy, white, 181
Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 23
Taraxacum: californicum, 27; carneocoloratum, 27; eriophorum, 27; kok-sagbyz, 28; lyratum, 27; officinale, 25-30; phymatocarpum, 27
tattoos, 5
tea, herbal, 19, 20, 59, 96, 118, 149, 162-63, 182-83, 190, 203, 214, 232, 233, 238, 244, 256, 280
teak, 255
tearthumb, arrow-leaved,194
teasel, 230
teniposide, 98
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 58-59, 120
tepals, 42, 74, 283
Tepedino, Dr. Vincent, 263
tetterwort, 23, 71
textiles, 79, 143
Thalictrum thalictroides, 15
thermogenesis, 4
thimbleweed, 16
thistle, 267-70, 279; blessed, 269; bull, 267, 270; Canada, 267, 268, 270; cotton, 269; fragrant, 268; pasture, 268; roadside, 269; Scotch, 268, 269; tall, 269
Thomson, Samuel, 219
Thoreau, Henry David, 3, 76, 77, 165, 169, 258, 274, 276
thoroughwax, 245
thoroughwort, 244
thousand weed, 184
thousand seal, 184
throatwort, 212
throughstem, 245
thrush, 106
thujone, 181
tipton weed, 209
toadflax, 60, 227-29, 252
toadroot, 109
tobaccos, smoking, 19, 33, 63, 64, 149, 164, 167, 249, 275
tomato, 164, 167
tonics, 45, 46, 104, 183, 253, 270, 280
tongue grass, 125
toothaches, 5, 70, 96, 104, 106, 119, 196, 203, 232
toothpaste, 24, 222
toothworts, 37
torches, 202
tormentil, 118
touch-me-not, pale, 151
Touch-me-not family, 151
Tradescant, John, 31, 161, 218
Tragopogon: dubius, 114; porrifolius, 114; pratensis, 113-14
trailing pea, 259
tranquilizers, 50, 96, 220, 256
transpiration, 146, 249, 283
traveler's delight, 259
trees, relationship of wildflowers to, 92-93, 199
Trifolium: arvense, 149; dubium, 149; hybridum, 148; pratense, 146-47, 214; repens, 147; stoloniferum, 146; virginicum, 146
trillium: dwarf, 57; large-flowered, 57; painted, 57; purple, 56; red, 4, 49, 55-57; western, 57; wet-dog, 56
Trillium Complex, 55
Trillium erectum, 55-57; grandiflorum, 57; nivale, 57; ovatum, 57; undulatum, 57
trimorphism, 179
trout lily, 40-43; white, 41
true-love, 56
trumpet flower, 242
tuberculosis, 231
tumors, 43, 55, 253, 266
turkey corn, 35
turmeric, 23
Turner, Cordelia Harris, 142
turtle, box, 98
turtlebloom, 253
turtlehead, 60, 206, 229, 251-53
Tussilago farfara, 18-21
tutsan, 209
twisted-stalk, 263
typhoid fever, 138, 240
Ukrain, 70
ulcers, 19, 23, 43, 51, 55, 59, 104, 119, 125, 182, 253, 279
umbel, 283
University of California, 281
University of Colorado, 24
University of Maryland, 94
University of Mississippi, 99-100
University of Pennsylvania, 265
University of Waterloo, 274
urinary ailments, 115, 242
Ute Indians, 182, 183
van Gogh, Vincent, 250
vegetable calomel, 99
vetetable mercury, 99
vegetables, wildflowers as, 72, 91, 114, 125, 134, 138, 143-44, 151, 158, 167, 170, 197, 225-26, 248, 249, 257-58, 268
vegetative reproduction, 71
velvet dock, 202
velvet plan, 202
Venus flytrap, 175
Verbascum: blattaria, 205, 206; phoeniceum, 205; thapsus, 202-04, 206
Verbena: bracteata, 256; hastata, 254; officinalis, 254; stricta, 256; urticifolia, 256
Vermont Ladyslipper Company, 95
Veronica: americana, 60; anagallis-aquatica, 60; arvensis, 60; chamaedrys, 60; cusickii, 60; filiformis, 60; officinalis, 58; serpyllifolia, 60; spicata, 59; virginica, 61
Veronicastrum virginicum, 61
verrucaria, 73
vertigo, 165
vervain, 254-56; American, 255; big-bract, 256; blue, 254-56; hoary, 256; swamp, 256; white, 256
Vervain family, 254
Viadent, 24
Vickery, Roy, 79
vinegar, 183
Vineland, N.J., 28
Viola: blanda, 53; canadensis, 53; conspera, 53; cucullata, 53; guadalupensis, 53; lanceolata, 53; nuttallii, 54; odorata, 52; palmata, 53; papilionacea, 49; pedata, 53; primulifolia, 53; pubescens, 54; rotundifolia, 54; tricolor, 49
violet, 48-54; American dog, 53; birdfoot, 53; bog white, 53; Canada, 53; dogtooth, 40-43; downy yellow, 54; early blue, 53; lance-leaved, 53; marsh blue, 53; palm, 53; prairie yellow, 54; primose-leaved, 53; rattlesnake, 40; round-leaved yellow, 54; sweet white, 53; sweet-scented, 52
violet bloom, 166
violet plates, 52, 158
Vipont Pharmaceuticals, 24
Virgil, 214, 273
Virgin's shoe, 93
Virginia Native Plant Society, 12
vitamins, in wildflowers, 13, 29, 38, 49, 125, 182-83, 225, 248
Vogel, Virgil J., 16
voodoo, 82
vomiting, 23, 68, 78, 143, 266
vomit-weed, 219-20
Wahl, Stacey, 188
Wait, Minnie Curtis, 99, 129
Wall Street Journal, 45
wake-robin, 55, 88
warts, 69, 73, 98, 174, 203
wartwort, 71
water blobs, 7
water crowfoot, 73
water dragon, 73
water gowan, 73
water-pepper, 195, 196
mild, 195
wax plant, 199
weather-cock, 152
Websites, 281-82
weed, definition of, xiv
Weed, Clarence M., 66, 76
weevils, 39, 178
Westbrooks, Randy, 108
western wallflower, 266
whippoorwill's shoe, 95
white apple, 259
white bird's eye, 125
white hearts, 34
white man's weed, 104
white tansy, 181
whiteheads, 109
whiteweed, 101
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 88, 234, 257
whooping cough, 24, 87, 104, 149, 154, 165
wild balsam, 152
wild bean, 259
wild beet, 225
wild bergamot, 161-63
wild buckwheat, 194
wild carrot, 185-86
wild celandine, 152
wild flax, 228
wild ginger, 83-85
wild hyssop, 255
wild ipecac, 266
wild jalop, 99
wild lemon, 99
wild licorice, 116
wild madder, 115
wild morning glory, 131
wild potato, 13
wild sage, 245
wild succory, 159
wild tobacco, 220, 228
wild tube-rose, 263
wild turnip, 88
wildflower, definition of, xii
Wildflower magazine, 24, 57, 282
Williams, Alfred, 19
willowherb, night, 225
windflower, 14
wine, 50, 116. 171, 187, 225, 232
Winnebago Indians, 43, 183
winterweed, 125
wire weed, 194
witchcraft, 165
witches, 119, 183, 202, 232, 255
witches' herb, 209
witloof, 29, 159
wolfbane, 65
woman’s tobacco, 63
woodbind, 133
woodruff, 116
Woodward, Marcus, 102, 131
woolen, 202
Wordsworth, William, 70
World Wide Web, xvi, 281-82
worms, 220, 253, 279
wormwood, 181; Roman, 238
wound treatments, 5, 59, 81, 84, 104, 119, 125, 143, 151, 182, 208, 214, 225, 231, 280
woundwort, 182
Wright, Mabel Osgood, 36, 77, 230, 232, 258, 274
Wrigley, 213, 214
Yankee weed, 245
yarrow, 180-83; California, 181; Siberian, 181; western, 181
yellow bastard-lily, 40
yellow bells, 40
yellow bird's nest, 199
yellow snakeleaf, 40
yellow snowdrop, 40
yellows, 95
yellowthroat, 4
Zeus, 49-50
Ziska, Lewis, 237
Zuni Indians, 183, 231