🪶Indigenous / Native American
Blue Vervain (Native)
Verbena hastata
About Blue Vervain (Native)
Blue Vervain (Native) (Verbena hastata) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American tradition to help with Anxiety, Stress, Insomnia, and Fever, among 1 other condition it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Verbena hastata (American vervain, blue vervain or swamp verbena) is a flowering plant in the vervain family, Verbenaceae. It is a herb with opposite, simple leaves which have double-serate margins, borne on stiffly erect, branching square stems. The flowers appear in summer and are purple. This is a common plant that occurs across North America. They are hardy and drought resistant.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal