🪶Indigenous / Native American
Valerian (Native)
Valeriana sitchensis
About Valerian (Native)
Valerian (Native) (Valeriana sitchensis) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American tradition to help with Insomnia, Anxiety, Stress, and Headache. The root is the part traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Valeriana sitchensis is a species of valerian known by the common name Sitka valerian. It is native to northwestern North America from Alaska and northern Canada to Montana to northern California, where it grows in many types of habitat, including moist mountain forests. In moist subalpine meadows, it is often one of the most common plants. This is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing a stout, erect stem to about 70 centimeters in maximum height, but known...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Root · internal