How to find herbal plant pics and descriptions/pj

April 8, 2002

PJ You asked for a website dedicated to just herbal pics and descriptions. I know of none that do not have their own agenda somewhere on the website. Well, actually I had a few before several computer crashes, but I forgot where they are. HERES HOW YOU DO THIS----

I use Google.com as my favorite search engine. You can put that up on your computer desktop, and when you want to find out about a particular herbs put in for instance Bidens pilosa medicinal properties or if you want a good picture, Bidens pilosa picture. If the plant you are looking for is not medicinal and you want to be sure...you can put in Bidens pilosa properties. As long as there is not a business with that name, you will get results about the plant you are looking for. I'm not joking, it was fun when I was trying to spell Chaparral or is it Chapparal , whatever!!! Very interesting results sometimes, anyway, you will learn a lot and the pictures out there on the web are wonderful. You can search by either the botanical name or the common name, but as soon as you find out the botanical name, search that. Why? Because there are many herbs and plants that have the same Common name, and one may be poison or not even the same kind of plant. Do you know how many kinds of Indian Hemp there are??? Several. But they have different botanical names.

One thing you have to be careful of. Always check more than one website, because the website pic may be wrong!!! Once in a while, not often, but it has happened!!!

Hope this helps someone.

hugs, Elaine

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Shirley Reed

herbal remedies

Sunday, April 07, 2002 1:50 PM

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To Elaine Davis: Thanks very much for this site. The pictures are just what is needed for id'ing manycommon and useful plants here in socal. And they arebig enough to be easily helpful. Do you happen toknow of a site like this that is dedicated to just themedicinal herbs? Thanks. pj