Healing
Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Very handsome plant throughout winter, considered rare. Used by natives for a variety of ailments including earaches, toothaches, sore throats, colds, and eye problems.
Sassafras
Naturally grown sassafras (ague tree) direct from the forest. All parts of the sassafras plant are spicy and aromatic. The roots, bark, leaves, new shoots, and pith from the branches of sassafras were used extensively for a wide variety of purposes by may Native American tribes including the Cherokee, Chippewa, Choctaw, Creek, Delaware, Oklahoma, Houma, Iroquois, Koasati, Mohegan, Nanticoke, Rappahannock, and Seminole. The medicinal uses of sassafras by Native Americans were many. Sassafras is a native, perennial, deciduous shrub or tree.
Teaberry (Wintergreen)
Teaberry is an amazing edible evergreen perennial ground cover in the wintergreen family. Teaberry has a wide variety of useful properties including herbal teas, edible fruit, flavoring and even making aspirin. The showy red fruits may last through winter. Teaberry is also known as wintergreen, checkerberry, partridge berry and boxberry.
Trees and Shrubs
- American Holly (Ilex opaca Ait.)
- Basswood (Tilia americana L.)
- Carolina Azalea (Rhododendron carolinianum)
- Eastern White Pine
- Yellow-poplar (Tuliptree)
- American Witchhazel
- Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum)
- Sweet Birch
- American Beech (Fagus grandifolia)
- Cucumbertree (Magnolia acuminata)
- Mountain Laurel (Rhododendrun)
- Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)
- Red Maple
- Chestnut Oak (Quercus prinus L.)
- Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra)
- White Oak (Quercus alba)
- Black Oak (Quercus velutina)