some medicinal herbs I found growing outside

I recently visited the sierra nevadas in California & ran into all of these beautiful herbs during my stay.

I’d never seen St. John’s Wort growing in the wild before so I was pretty psyched about that one (although I found out it’s technically invasive so it lowkey shouldn’t have been growing there, but I only saw a small patch the whole time I was there so I don’t think it’s too invasive but I hope it gets harvested anyways).

I also saw an abundance of yarrow with was really great to see. There was a lot of mullein too, mullein is also invasive to the area but still a very beneficial plant. And then I also saw a bunch of red clover.

It genuinely amazing to get to see medicine grow wildly. Although I’ve learnt to ID a lot of plants I like to use the picturethis app to tell me if something is invasive. I think a general rule is to not harvest over a third of a plant patch that you see growing but I think that goes out the window if something is invasive—you could probably take as much as you want any if not all.

Regardless, each of these plants have great medicinal benefits (I only named a few but there’s much more)! 💚

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