Plants of Pern

[Bloody]

Plants of Pern

Aconite
Appearance:
- fibrous roots; erect stems; palmately divided or cleft leaves
- flower:most are blue or purple, some yellow or white; bilaterally symmetrical with five parts, with the uppermost portion being shaped like a hood
Uses:
- root is used in powdered form as pain reliever (anodyne), heart palpitations
Cautions:
- excess amounts can cause restlessness, salivation, nausea, weakened heartbeat, chest pain, prostration, possibly death

Adonis
Appearance:
- finely cut, alternate leaves, flowers are red or yellow
Uses:
- used as pain reliever, for heart palpitations

Alfalfa
Appearance:
- small purple flowers on tall stalks, extensive root systems
Uses:
- in a tea as a diuretic

Aloe
Appearance:
- short stems, fleshy, lanceolate leaves crowded in rosettes at the end of the stems; red or tubular flowers in dense clusters
Uses:
- sap of leaves used for treatment of burns

Ash
Appearance:
- tree, small clusters of greenish flowers with or without sepals and petals
Uses:
- bark used as diuretic and to reduce fevers (febrifuge)

Asparagus
Appearance:
- thin spears, delicate, lacy foliage
Uses:
- part of cure for hangovers

Barley
Appearance:
- grain on top of tall stalk, golden in color when ready to harvest
Uses:
- brewed in tea to relieve cystitis

Basil
Appearance:
- ovate green leaves on a mid-sized stalk
Uses
- used as antispasmodic

Borage, Borrago
Appearance:
- rough hairs on stems and leaves; flower cluster is spirally coiled and unrolls as the flowers open; flowers are radially symmetric with five-lobed corollas (fused petals) that are funnel- or bell-shaped; fruit matures into four nutlets
Uses:
- used to relieve coughs

Box
Appearance:
- hedge; small, oval, opposite, leathery leaves, dark glossy green on upper surface, lighter beneath, petalless flowers
Uses:
- diaphoretic (produces perspiration)
Cautions:
- moderate to large dosages can cause irritation of the digestive tract and possibly death

Comfrey
Appearance:
- unknown
Uses:
- used for burns, coughs

Coriander
Appearance:
- lower leaves are divided in fine, thread-like partitions, white and pink flowers grow in small clusters
Uses:
- for relief of abdominal discomfort

Cucumber
Appearance:
- trailing herb, fruit resembles a long green cylinder
Uses:
- sliced, used for burns

Dragon's Tongue
Appearance:
- mottled leaves, bears yellow flowers
Uses:
- used for burns

Ezob
Appearance:
- unknown
Uses:
- used to relieve coughs, as diaphoretic

Featherfern
Appearance:
- multiple green fronds
Uses:
- in tonic to relieve fever

Fellis Tree
Appearance:
- small, branchy, drooping tree; fragrant clusters of yellow or pink flowers with pointed petals; clusters of berry-like fruit
Uses:
- juice from fruit used as narcotic painkiller
Cautions:
- can be addictive, very large doses can be lethal

Garlic
Appearance:
- flowers have six whitish petals; fruit is a capsule containing kidney shaped black seeds; bulb is covered in a papery skin, and can be broken into constituent bulblets, called cloves
Uses:
- used as cold remedy, controls high blood pressure, as digestive stimulant, antispasmodic, diuretic
- also used in cooking and pickling

Glovecap
Appearance:
- unknown
Uses:
- used for pain relief

Hissop, Hyssop
Appearance:
- narrow, woody stems, elliptical, aromatic leaves; bluish-purple, red, or white flowers
Uses:
- used in tea for coughs

Hops
Appearance:
- vines; rough stems; heart-shaped leaves, with five to seven lobes
Uses:
- used for relief of pain

Ilex
Appearance:
- unknown
Uses:
- used to treat pneumonia

Lavender
Appearance:
- narrow leaves, small purple flowers containing oil of lavender
Uses:
- oil used in lotion or salve to relieve headaches

Lovage
Appearance:
- dark green leaves, composed of many leaflets, are shiny with toothed tips; tiny yellow flowers grow in clusters
Uses:
- used for coughs

Meadowsweet
Appearance:
- white and blue flowers
Uses
- pain reliever

Mosstea
Appearance:
- unknown
Uses:
- for dressing wounds against infection

Needlethorn
Appearance:
- several cactus like stalks from a single base, three stalks, three leaves; succulent bush with toxic brown spines; skin of plant has fine hairs that may cause irritation, inflammation of skin
Uses:
- needles are used as syringes for injections and to draw blood

Nettleweed
Appearance:
- fern-like, stems and leaves may be covered in hairs filled with stinging liquid
Uses:
- used in a tonic

Numbweed
Appearance:
- bush; plaquey, thorny greenery; opposing leaves are arrowhead-shaped, with a terminating leaf at the end of each branch; gray-green color; tufts of blossoms similar to statice
Uses:
- used raw or in salve, numbs pain
Cautions:
- too much will cause bleeding and scarring

Pink Root
Appearance:
- unknown
Uses:
- relief of bellyaches

Red Willow Salic
Appearance:
- unknown
Uses:
- pain relief

Rosemary
Appearance:
- grows close to ground, produces small blue flowers
Uses:
- medicinal

Sage
Appearance:
- densely covered in hairs, produces colorful tubular, aromatic flowers
Uses:
- in tes with willow and wintergreen for headaches

Seaweeds
Appearance:
- long, leaf-like, underwater plants
Uses:
- boiled juice from stalk used as preventative for bone ailments

Spearkeek
Appearance:
- white bulb
Uses:
- reduces fevers

Sweetroot
Appearance:
- yellowish tuber
Uses:
- in crystal form, used to reduce fever, headaches

Tansy
Appearance:
- deeply dividing leaves, yellow heads
Uses:
- as tonic, to relieve heart palpitations

Tarragon
Appearance:
- green stem and leaves, small greenish composite flowerheads
Uses:
- medicinal

Thymus
Appearance:
- narrow leaves, whitish or reddish flowers in whorls; wild variety has oval leaves and purple flowers
Uses:
- used for coughs

Tussilago
Appearance:
- unknown
Uses:
- for coughs

Vines from Ista
Appearance:
- vines
Uses:
- sap from bruised leaves will neutralize insect stings

White Bulb
Appearance:
- unknown
Uses:
- reduces fevers

White Thorn
Appearance:
- unknown
Uses:
- pain relief, heart palpitations

Willow
Appearance:
- tree, simple flowers
Uses:
- used in tea to control arthritis, used in tea with wintergreen and sage for headaches, used in crystals as willowsalic for headaches

Wintergreen
Appearance:
- short shrub with creeping stalks; glossy, leathery, serrate leaves; white or pinkish flowers, scarlet berries
Uses:
- in tea with sage and willow for headache relief

Witch Hazel
Appearance:
- woody plants
Uses:
- extract from leaves used for burns

Yarrow
Appearance:
- finely divided leaves, clusters of small red or white flowers
Uses:
- for acne

- Credit to Dawnwings