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Acantha Acantha can be found in climates
ranging from near desert to moist ocean beaches. The plant features elongated
light green leaves.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
Noted
for its herbal properties when the leaves are eaten, restores
a portion of blood.
WL,
RR, SL, ZL, TI, TV
Akbutege
Aloeas Moss green leaves with long stems,
similar in shape to the oak leaf, routinely sold for its medicinal properties
and may also be foraged wild. The small tree displays the ability to turn
towards the movements of the sun (this is known as heliotropism), and might
be related to the heliotrope. Aloeas grows in colder, wet areas, such as
along riverbanks.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
When the stems are consumed, bleeding
from the head or neck staunches, both internal and external, and of healing
bruising of the brain.
WL
Arfandas
Ambrominas Ambrominas bushes have oval leaves
of a dark green hue, routinely sold for its medicinal properties and may
also be foraged wild. It grows in grasslands and hilly areas.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
When consumed, it has the property
of healing the minor cuts, bruises, and scrapes.
WL
Arnuminas
Angelica Commercially found in Pinefar,
grown in climates that afford rich soils with a sufficient rainfall to avoid
drought. Short-lived, once the plant flowers, it goes to seed.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
The edible root, leaves, and stalks
are popular for baking and liqueurs. Also used in potions to replace missing
limbs.
ALL
N/A
Anise A bulbous plant with feathery foliage
that flowers and goes to seed. Licorice flavor, often used in baking, candy,
or liqueur. Can be boiled like a vegetable. Often found at special celebrations.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
N/A
N/A
Asparagus Fern-like plant that loves a moist
habitat, also a spring vegetable. Stalks are edible when young and before
they flower. Often found at special celebrations.
Bulrush Aquatic or wetland herbs having
grasslike leaves and usually clusters of small, often brown spikelets. Similar
to cattails and papyrus.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
OTF
N/A
Bur-Clover This prostrate, spreading plant,
related to the alfalfa/sweet clover family, hugs the ground. Its creeping
stems may vary in length from a few inches to several feet. Leaflets are
very similar to clover, but occasionally have whitish and dark red spots
across the surface. Stems are round and smooth, and the yellow-orange flowers
gather in very loose clusters. Seed pods appear spirally twisted and are
covered with hooked spines, or barbs.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
The
roots of the bur-clover plant can be finely-ground into
a powder and combined with other ingredients to make a
healing potion, helpful for missing eyes.
WL
Baldakurr
Burdock Weedy plants bearing pink or purplish
flower heads surrounded by prickly bracts and forming a bur in fruit. Try
your hand at gathering one, and test this taste treat.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
The edible young stalks that emerge
from the roots, in Spring, are tasty raw or when sautéed.
WL, IMT, PF,
ZL, TI
N/A
Cactacae
Routinely sold for its medicinal properties, may also be foraged
wild. Has sharp long brown thorns. Cactacae cactus grows in
desert or near-desert conditions.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
When consumed,
cactacae spine has the useful property of removing unsightly
scars from arms, hands, and legs.
WL
Dagmather
Cactus Succulent, spiny, usually leafless
plants native mostly to arid regions, often bearing variously colored, showy
flowers. If you're very careful, you can forage around the spines and come
away with a flower.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
All except
IMT and PF
N/A
Cactus (strigae) The flesh of the strigae cactus
possesses properties akin to the properties of cuctucae berries, but the
spines are sufficiently sharp that acquiring the flesh may do as much harm
as the herb can heal. Flat and paddle-shaped, the cactus plants supposedly
grow abundantly in desert areas.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
WL, IMT
Gariig
Calamia Fruit The fruit of the calamia plant
is large and a light red color close to pink. Routinely sold for its medicinal
properties and may also be foraged wild. The properties of calamia are greatest
when the fruit has been dried, but few bother to do so, seeing as the fruit
is amazingly effective when fresh. Calamia grows in very warm, moist climates.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
When consumed, calamia fruit can
restore a mangled limb to its proper shape and form.
WL
Curfalaka
Carrot (common) Vegetable with an edible orange
root and leafy green stalks. Often found at special celebrations.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
N/A
N/A
Carrot (wild) Brackets of tiny white flowers
clustered on stalks. Found by roadsides and in meadows, a favorite plant
for ladybugs.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
WL
N/A
Cattails Cattails are probably the most
familiar of all wetland plants. Their swaying brown flower clusters can
be seen at the edges of ponds, rivers, lakes, or just about any place where
there is shallow, standing water for at least part of the year. The common
cattail can grow up to nine feet in height. Probably the most distinctive
thing about the cattails are their flowers, as each possesses thousands
of tiny brown flowers all tightly compressed into a compact mass on the
top of their stems. During late summer and early autumn, these structures
will begin to come apart, releasing their seeds into the wind as they do
so.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
ALL
N/A
Chicory A perennial herb, chicory has rayed
flower heads with usually blue florets. Often, the root is ground and used
for a coffee substitute, or as an adulterant. The leaves of the chicory
plant can be used in salads and soups, despite the fact that it imparts
a slight bitterness.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
ALL
N/A
Cinquefoil Common cinquefoil stems are hairy
and grow somewhat prostrate along the ground. The more ornamental varieties
can rise up and grow in clumps or tufts, reaching two foot lengths, or grow
nearly prostrate along the ground. The leaves are palmately divided into
five leaflets, similar to strawberry leaves, coarsely toothed leaflets that
have pale undersides. Common cinquefoil flowers are yellow, one per stem
and fairly conspicuous.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
ZL
N/A
Corn Corn is a grain crop that grows
on a stalk and produces an "ear." Grain-type corn is not harvested
fresh, it is allowed to dry on the stalk and then is harvested with a thresher.
This type of corn is used primarily in animal feed or in cereal products.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
RR, SH, TI
N/A
Cothinar Cothinar flowers may be foraged
wild. Cothinar grows in colder, barren areas, and thrives in the winter
months.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
When consumed, cothinar flowers
share the properties of acantha leaves, save in that they are a bit more
powerful.
N/A
Cusamar
Cuctucae Cuctucae bushes are most readily
found in higher elevations and cooler climates, and the small, dusky blue
berries may be foraged wild.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
When consumed, cuctucae berries
shares the properties of acantha, but without the pause for digestion and
healing required by acantha.
WL, IMT
Dugmuthur
Daggit A member of the carrot family,
the daggit plant produces a white root with a scarlet blush near the base
where it meets the foliage. Red-stemmed green-leafed foliage can be used
to create a wine-hued dye.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
The edible roots can be mashed
and blended to make a potion that replaces missing eyes.
PF
N/A
Eggplant Eggplant belongs to the family
that also includes tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes. Comes in a variety of
shapes and sizes, ranging from round and white, to elongated, pear-shaped
and deep purple.
Fennel With its umbels of tiny yellow
flowers and dark green or bronze wispy leaves, fennel is a decorative addition
to the herbaceous border where it makes a good background plant, and often
grows rambunctiously in the wild The "fruits" of the fennel plant
are often, mistakenly, referred to as seeds. Known for its anise-like flavor
and scent.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
WL, EN
N/A
Ferns (fiddlehead) Fiddlehead ferns are a stage in
the growth of all ferns -- the tightly coiled young shoots. They resemble
the head of a violin, hence the name. Edible fiddleheads are the fiddleheads
of the Ostrich Fern.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
ALL
N/A
Ferns (silver-edged) Rich green fronds variated with
an off-white edging. Silver-edged ferns grow along the path to Moonstone
Abbey.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
TI
N/A
Feverfew The single, white and yellow, daisy-like
flowers grow densely on upright bushes.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
The dry leaf, flower and/or seed
may be made into tea or tincture, providing a valuable tonic for healing
head and neck wounds.
PF
N/A
Fig (creeping)
This aggressive, beautiful evergreen
vine is a relative of the edible fig, but bears little resemblance to its
close cousin. Creeping fig is an enthusiastic climber able to scramble
up
vertical surfaces when aided and trained. This vine covers surfaces with
a tracery of fine stems that are densely covered with small heart-shaped
leaves held closely to the surface, creating a mat of foliage. Pale green
in color, the fig fruits are very small.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
TI
N/A
Ginger The large, fleshy rhizome of the
plant has a characteristic staghorn-like appearance. Dried ginger is usually
sold in form of an off-white to very light brown powder.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
Can be used in cooking and baking,
as well as candies and teas or other beverages.
WL
N/A
Ginkgo Sometimes called a living fossil,
the Ginkgo is one of the oldest living deciduous tree species. Distinctive
bi-lobed and fanlike leaves, which turn a beautiful golden yellow in autumn.
Produces an edible nut, which needs to be roasted before brewing in tea.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
Teas and potions can heal eye and
torso wounds.
PF
N/A
Gorse
Gorse is a spiny evergreen shrub related to the pea family,
and is dense and stiff, forming impenetrable thickets. Its erect angular
stems have spreading branches ending in thorns and green leaves that take
the form of branching spines. Flowers are yellow and shaped like pea-blossoms,
clustered near the ends of the branches. Fruit pods resemble pea pods that
burst, expelling the seeds. Gorse has been used for wine.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
SH
N/A
Haphip Routinely sold for its medicinal
properties, may also be foraged wild. The tree is fairly rare, and grows
in hot, humid conditions where it receives a great deal of moisture. Only
harvesting a small amount of root is recommended, to avoid killing the tree.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
Haphip root has the useful property
of removing scarring from the face and neck of those who consume it.
WL
Hegheg
Lettuce Edible leaves that grow in a bunch
around a central core. Varieties of leaf type and color make for interesting
salads. Usually eaten raw, often dressed with oil, vinegar, and herbs.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
WL
N/A
Manroot All parts of this rapidly growing,
often invasive plant are exceedingly bitter. Touch your tongue to a cut
root and your jaw will lock. This strong a chemical defense indicates potential
medicinal use. Related to the cucumber family, which includes, melons and
gourds, the manroot is a veritable pharmacoepia. Edible stalks, used in
teas and potions, can heal limb scars.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
PF
N/A
Marillis The dark red, small berries of
the marillis plant have properties similar to acantha, cothinir, and cuctucae.
Marillis grows most commonly in colder hills and mountains.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
WL
Mirenna
Mustard The easily distinguished flowers
have four petals arranged diagonally ("cruciform") and alternating with
the four sepals. Used to make woad, an important dye source. Most important
commercially are the black mustard and white mustard. These are yellow-flowered
annuals resemble each other and are used more or less similarly. They are
cultivated for the seeds, which are ground and used as a condiment, usually
mixed to a paste with vinegar or oil, sometimes with spices or with an admixture
of starch to reduce the pungency. Mustards are also grown as salad plants
and for greens. The white mustard is used in some places as forage for sheep
and as green manure. Black mustard seeds are more pungent than the white
and yield a yellowish, biting oil that has also been useful in medicine.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
EN
N/A
Nettle Nettle plants grow two to three
feet tall, bearing dark green leaves with serrated margins, and small flowers
covered with tiny hairs on the leaves and stems. When brushed, Nettles can
inject an irritant into any skin that comes into contact with the plant.
The stinging reaction is caused by the plant hairs injecting a compound
containing formic acid, histamine, and other irritants. This stinging activity
is lost when the plant is dried or cooked, and the tender tops of young
first-growth nettles are especially delicious and nutritious.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
EN
N/A
Pea The erect shrub or short-lived
perennial legume is often grown as an annual crop, 1 to 4 meters high. The
leaves have three leaflets. Leaflets are elliptic to lanceolate, green and
pubescent above and silvery greyish-green with longer hairs below, 2.5-10
cm long and up to 3.5 cm wide. The flowers are yellow with red/reddish brown
lines or a red outside, borne in terminal racemes, and measure 1.2-1.7 cm
in diameter. Pods are straight to sickle shaped, 5-10 cm long and 0.5-1.5
cm wide, glabrous and glandular (Bogdan).
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
RR
N/A
Pennyroyal This strongly aromatic herb is
a low-growing plant with a slender erect much-branched, somewhat hairy and
square stem. The leaves are small, thin, and rather narrow. In summer, close
flower clusters appear, consisting of a few pale-bluish flowers. The entire
herb has a strong mintlike odor and pungent taste. Their edible stems are
used in oils and rubs.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
Brewed into a tea or potion, it
can heal major head and neck wounds.
ALL
N/A
Peppermint Green peppermint hearts can be
obtained freely in Zephyr Hall.
Rose-Marrow A member of the leguminous family.
Staggered blackish-green leaves climb tall stalks, nearly hiding scarlet-edged
white blossoms that eventually give way to small, rounded seed pods.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
Small knoblike nodules found on
the roots can be made into a healing potion, helpful for minor head and
neck wounds.
WL
Rewk
Rosemary A decent spice, as well as a fragrant
garden plant, with needle-like glossy, dark green leaves and showy petite
blue flowers.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
TI
N/A
Sage (wild)
The sage plant is a member of the
herb family, and gowns in small rounded clumps of aromatic grayish-green,
opposite leaves. Great when used in stews and seasonings meats, mostly
fowl.
When left to its own, wild sage will grow woody and tall, but its distinctive
aroma is still present.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
EN
N/A
Seaweed (various) Often edible, sometimes used to
make rope or clothing.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
WL, KD, SH,
RR
N/A
Sovyn Sovyn clove is routinely sold for
its medicinal properties, and may also be foraged wild. The cloves of which
people speak are actually the small, dried flowers of the sovyn bush; without
time to dry in the sun, their healing powers are lost.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
Sovyn clove, when consumed, may
miraculously restore an entire missing limb to a person, so long as the
limb has not been recently severed.
WL
Siran
Spearmint May be foraged in several places
in the vicinity of Wehnimer's Landing.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
Eating spearmint leaves is good
for the breath and is a remarkable digestive aid.
WL
N/A
Strawberry A low-growing plant with white
flowers and an aggregate fruit that consists of a red fleshy edible receptacle
and numerous seedlike fruitlets.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
WL, RR, SH,
IMT (probably hothouse), EN
N/A
Strawberry (wild) Bears smaller fruit than its cultivated
cousin, but much more flavorful. Some diligent foraging might yield this
sweet treasure.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
ALL
N/A
Sweetfern An aromatic deciduous shrub having
narrow, deeply lobed, fernlike leaves and minute flowers grouped in catkinlike
heads.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
Edible stalks can be brewed into
teas and potions that heal limb wounds.
ALL
N/A
Talneo A member of the leguminous family.
Long, tapered yellow-green leaves emerge from a vine-like stalk, the tendrils
of which can be trained to climb. Draping cascades of periwinkle blue flowers
eventually turn to see, producing narrow yellow pods.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
Small knoblike nodules found on
the roots can be made into a healing potion, helpful for minor body and
eye scars.
WL
Tarnas
Tarweed A strong-smelling, resinous plant
with yellow, rayed flower heads.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
OTF
N/A
Teaberry (bright red) Also known as wintergreen. A creeping
shrub bearing white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike
fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield a fragrant oil. Try to forage
for the tasty berries.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
ALL
N/A
Thyme One of several aromatic herbs,
the low shrubs have small, white to lilac flowers grouped in headlike clusters.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
EN
N/A
Tkaro
Characteristic in nature due to
its brilliant golden foliage, making it easy to stand out in a field or
along a path, the root itself is a dark burgundy color, similar to a
beet,
but much tastier. Can be foraged in the wild.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
When the root of the tkaro plant
is eaten, it has the effect of silencing the inner voices you hear in your
head (amunet and Voln) for several minutes.
RR, IMT
N/A
Tomato A widely cultivated plant having
edible, fleshy, and usually red fruit. Comes in several varieties and sizes
from cherry to larger than a giantkin's hand. Rare versions produce yellow,
orange, green, blackish, and striped fruits.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
Delicious fresh and raw, especially
when sliced and slightly salted. Used in cooking to create sauces. Paste
made from the fruit can also serve as a thickener.
WL
N/A
Torban Torban leaf is routinely sold for
its medicinal properties, and may also be foraged wild. Growing in mild
climates, the tree is not difficult to find, but care must be exercised
in selecting the leaves in the proper stage of growth, or they will be useless,
save for tea-making.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
When consumed, the leaves of the
Torban tree can treat minor nervous system defects, such as slurred speech.
Turnip A widely cultivated plant of the
mustard family, having a large fleshy edible yellow or white root.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
Great when baked with a little
butter.
EN
N/A
Valerian A plant widely cultivated for its
small, fragrant, white to pink or lavender flowers and for use in medicine.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
The edible root is good for teas,
potions, and serves as an aid for nerve and sleeping disorders.
ALL
N/A
Water Chestnut A floating aquatic plant bearing
four-pronged nutlike fruit and grown as a pond or aquarium ornamental. The
fruit, often called a corm or tuber, can be used in cooking. Foraged often
in the wild.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
WL, KD, RR,
SH, TV
N/A
Wingstem A member of the legume family.
Pairs of pale green wing-shaped leaves offset small lavender flowers with
yellow centers.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
The small knoblike nodules found
on the roots can be made into a healing potion, good for major eye and torso
scars.
WL
Wekwek
Wintergreen Also known as teaberry. A creeping
shrub bearing white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike
fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield a fragrant oil.
Wormwood Any of several aromatic plants
yielding a bitter extract used in making absinthe and in flavoring certain
wines.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
N/A
RR, EN
N/A
Woth flower An exceedingly beautiful flower,
that, when in full bloom, has a blue throat surrounded by ruffled violet
petals. Woth flower is routinely sold for its medicinal properties, and
may also be foraged wild. Woth flower grows best in hot, humid, dark climates,
and it is believed to be native to rain forests.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
When consumed, woth flower can
heal serious defects of the nervous system, such as involuntary spasms or
constant convulsions.
WL
Yuth
Wyrmwood A small, reddish-brown barked tree
with gnarled branches. Insects love the sweet sap and often bore tiny holes
along the trunk. Yellow leaves appear at spring and die off at first frost,
after producing brackish green flowers.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
The poisonous (to people) bark
can be brewed in tiny quantities as a tea, healing torso scars and eye wounds.
Can also be made into a potion.
PF
N/A
Yabathilium
The fruit of the tree is small, greenish, and unfortunately,
extremely bitter. Yabathilium tree grows on beaches and saltwater
coastlines, and may be foraged in the wild.
Uses
Primarily Found
Other Names
When consumed, yabathilium fruit
has astonishing powers to restore blood and strength to those who have been
injured.
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