• Wintergreen-white flowers, red berries grows 2-6 inches tall. Oil of wintergreen used in medicines to soothe stomachs.
• Mint-Used to ease an upset stomach or a sore throat. Mint plants have a square stem.
• Joy-Pye Weed-used by settlers to cure fevers.
• Violets-medicine to soothe the eyes found in violets, young leaves and flowers used in salads; seventy-seven kinds are found in North America.
• Mayapple-lemon-like fruit used as a substitute for lemon flavoring. Boiled roots used as a cathartic.
• Sour Grass-sour-tasting leaves eaten as a salad; a remedy for a stomach ache-however, too much can give one a stomach ache!
• Feverfew-wild quinine, used to ease a fever, commonly found in fields and gardens. Yellow and white flowers, look like small daisies.
• Poison-Ivy-"leaflets three, let it be, berries, red, never dread." Leaves always in threes, large or small, but berries never red, a greenish-white in color.
• Sassafras-was second only to gold in value to early merchants; boiled roots made a good tonic; used as one of the flavors in root beer.
• Nettles-leaves were cooked and used in stews, and soups; stem fibers were used to make a linen-like cloth; plant has stinging hairs that can give you a very painful rash.
• Shadblow - an early blooming tree; its berries can be eaten fresh, used for pies and jams.
• Elderberry-a tall bush that has flat white clusters of blooms, berries come later; used for pies, jams and wine. Face lotion was made from the berries. Children used stems for flutes and peashooters.
• Dandelion-a persistent pest to us, but the official remedy for illnesses that came on in winter; a much needed source of vitamins because it grew so long; used as a tonic, and a vegetable in salads.
• Goldenrod-considered rare and useful; medicine made from it thought to make you solid, or well again.
• Tansy-tansy tea, bitter tea used to fight fevers, stomach aches, and colds; old recipe books feature tansy cakes and puddings.
• Mullein-leaves used to make cough medicine. Grows as a tall spire, has large soft velvety leaves; flower stalk was dipped in fats or oils and burned as a torch.
• Chicory-used in salads and soups; ground roots were a substitute for coffee, also used in making love potions to keep a lover faithful.
• Wild Onion-strong flavored and mild flavored kinds, used as food flavoring and as a vegetable.
• Sunflower-seeds used for food or used as food for birds.
• Bouncing Bet-a lovely pink flower, has a sap that when rubbed in water makes a foam that was used to wash clothes with in early days. Bouncing Bet, the detergent!
• Teasel-plant has spiny seed head, used to brush up nap on woolen material to make it soft.
• Willow-water-loving trees; the bark has been used as a medicine to cure headaches and to prevent malaria. The twig contains a substance called salicylic acid, so now we call it aspirin!
• Cattails-a food plant that grows in swamps, young shoots were eaten as we eat asparagus; ground-up roots were made into flour; fluffy down from mature seed head was used to stuff sleeping bags and pillows.

Remedies-turpentine and lard made hot and rubbed on the chest for serious colds and coughs.

• Turpentine was used to stop bleeding.
• Skunk's grease (really from a skunk!), was a remedy for whooping cough.