Thoroughwort

* It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1.5–3 m (5–10 feet) tall, found in moist, rich soil alongside ditches and marshes, or in wet forests. * The plant has one simple erect stem, which is green with purple dots or longitudinal dashes.

* It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1.5–3 m (5–10 feet) tall, found in moist, rich soil alongside ditches and marshes, or in wet forests. * The plant has one simple erect stem, which is green with purple dots or longitudinal dashes.

Queen butterflies flock to the blue flowers of this species and will spend hours sipping from the nectar rich flowers of this species along with the many other pollinators that jockey for position there.

Boneset was listed as a treatment for fever in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia from 1820-1916, and in the National Formulary from 1926-1950. No claim or opinion in this website is intended to be medical advice.

There were some technical terms all right--words I'm pretty sure I never even heard in Botany 101. Every time I searched the Internet for information on some pretty flower, the results led me to Dave's Garden.