🪶Indigenous / Native American
American Basswood
Tilia americana
About American Basswood
American Basswood (Tilia americana) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American tradition to help with Anxiety, Headache, Fever, and Insomnia. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Tilia americana is a species of tree in the Malvaceae family, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, and southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska. Common names include American basswood and American linden. The tree was introduced to the UK in 1752, but has never prospered there, being prone to dieback.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal