Patricia Mikkelson

Medicinal and Other Plants Come Up Every Year

Big leafy comfrey plants filling the front of a lush garden bed on a rocky slope beside the house
Comfrey at its prime in the side garden, with herbs and wild plants spilling down the rocky slope behind it. I planted comfrey once, and it has come back every year since, along with so many of the medicinal plants on the lists below.

In this list of 50 medicinal plants, I discovered that 12 of the plants on the list are growing in the numerous garden areas we have created by building up the soil and planting, year after year. The plants are:

Comfrey

Daylilies

Yellow dock

Red clover

Wild garlic

Yarrow

Dandelion

Sage

Milk thistle

Peppermint

Mullein

Echinacea

Apple mint

Jerusalem artichokes

Cosmos

Bee balm

Zinnias

Morning glories

Sweet peas

Asian lilies

Pokeweed

Purslane

Violets

Lamb’s quarters

Cow peas

Wild blackberries

Black caps (wild raspberries)

Black-eyed Susans

Milkweed

St. John’s wort

Tansy

Shiso

Passion fruit

Four o’clocks

Marigolds

Sedum

Daffodils

Hostas

Solomon’s seal

Iris

Wintercress

Narrow-leaf plantain with ribbed green leaves growing beside silvery, fuzzy lamb's ear
Plantain is super abundant on this property. Here its ribbed green leaves fan out right beside the soft, silvery leaves of lamb’s ear, two healing plants sharing the same little patch of ground.
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Here is a list of most of the plants that are growing on the property. Some come up from bulbs, others from roots, and others are self-seeding. They all have wonderful qualities, including:

Medicinal

Flowering

Pollinator-friendly

Native

Edible roots

Fruit-bearing

Here is a list of most of them, numbering around 40. I am still identifying other plants that are growing, and I keep thinking of more plants I have forgotten!

Cosmos

Bee balm

Lemon balm

Yarrow

Echinacea

Peppermint

Apple mint

Oregano

Comfrey

Yellow dock

Wintercress

Dandelions

Morning glories

Four o’clocks

Plantain

A large clump of narrow-leaf plantain growing among apple mint and fallen leaves near a stone
Plantain is super abundant on this property. Here a big, healthy clump of narrow-leaf plantain grows right up through the apple mint beside a stone, with tiny pink smartweed flowers tucked in between. I never planted it; it simply found its way to the good soil.

Dead nettle

Chickweed

Gladiolas

Iris

Daylilies

Obedient plants

Asian lilies

Jerusalem artichokes

Cilantro

Sweet peas

Passion fruit

Cow peas

Lamb’s ear

Sedum

Naked lady lilies

Marigolds

Mullein

Ferns

Milk thistle

Milkweed

Solomon’s seal

Tansy

Purslane

Butterfly bush

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