The Medicinal Plant Garden
The department of Integrative Health Science houses a medicinal plant garden located on the north side of the Wilson Athletic Center. It houses over sixty medicinal plants, half of which are native to Florida.
Plants Included in the Garden
- Willow (salix carolina)
- Black eyed susan
- Sage
- Violet
- Tea tree tree
- Lemongrass
- Rosemary
- Lemon desert marigold
- Chives
- Passionflower
- Goldenseal
- Button snakeroot
- Swamp rose
- Sweet bay
- Bee balm
- Tarragon
- Stevia
- Valerian
- Mugwort
- Aloe
- Elderberry
- Yarrow
- Spiderwort
- Three types of hawthorn (two native to Florida)
- Two types of St. John's Wort (native)
- Uva Ursi
- Rose scented geranium
- Purselane
- Salad burnett
- Vetivert grass
- Wild coffee
- Desmodium
- Three varieties of mint (spearmint, chocolate mint, pineapple mint)
- Three varieties of wild blueberries (native)
- One variety of cultivated blueberry
- Chaste tree
- Toothache tree (hercules club)
