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Cinchona

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Comfrey

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Deadly Nightshade

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Echinacea

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Elderberry

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Feverfew

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Foxglove

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Garlic

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Ginger

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Ginkgo

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Ginseng

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Persons, W. Scott. American Ginseng, Green Gold. (revised edition.) Asheville, North Carolina: Bright Mountain Books, Inc., 1994. p. 201.

Pritts, Kim D. Ginseng: How to Find, Grow, and Use America's Forest Gold. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1995. p. 150.

Horehound

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Marijuana

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Gilmore, Melvin R. Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.

Goodspeed, Thomas Harper. "The Genus Nicotiana: Origins, Relationships and Evolution of its Species in the Light of their Distribution, Morphology and Cytogenetics." Chronica Botanica 16 Waltham, Massechusettes: Chronica Botanica Company, 1954.

Mullein

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Poppy

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Salix

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St. John's Wort

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Sugar

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Tobacco

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Gilmore, Melvin R. Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.

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Yaupon

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Yew

http://biology.fullerton.edu/courses/biol_445/

http://www.odf.state.or.us/BIGTREES/pacyew.htm

Other

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