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Wild Herb Encyclopedia – Healing Effects and Uses
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So that you know what is worth taking with you on your next walk in nature, we have compiled in our wild herbs lexicon those that can be used as culinary herbs and medicinal plants.
Conceptual basis for the wild herbs lexicon
Wild herbs are those herbaceous plants that, unlike cultivated plants, are not specifically cultivated, meaning they are not deliberately grown in gardens, greenhouses, nurseries, or agriculture. Instead, these herbs grow wild without human help in meadows, fields, and forests.
Important: The term wild herbs has no botanical origin but rather comes from trade and everyday language.
Many wild herbs are also used in the kitchen and can furthermore be used as medicinal plants for medical purposes. Our wild herbs lexicon lists a selection of these important representatives.
Edible wild herbs in the lexicon
Not all herbs found in the wild are edible. Some are inedible and even toxic. Our wild herbs lexicon helps you to distinguish between usable varieties and those you should better avoid. Some herb species from our wild herbs lexicon are also deliberately cultivated as garden herbs.
From A to Z: small native wild herbs lexicon
The following representatives in our wild herbs lexicon are edible. Therefore, it is worth collecting them on your walk and using them for culinary delights:
- Field pennycress
- Field mustard
- Field horsetail
- Wild garlic
- Nettle
- Frenchweed
- Ground elder
- Ground ivy
- Daisy
- Silverweed
- Shepherd's purse
- Chamomile
- Garlic mustard
- Dandelion
- Meadowsweet
- Oregano
- Raw cob
- Red clover
- Sorrel
- Yarrow
- Plantain
- Dead-nettle
- Bird's knotweed
- Chickweed
- Wood sorrel
- Mallow
- Meadow bedstraw
- Wild teasel
- Wild carrot
- Two-ribbed hawthorn
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