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Bloodroot, a flower with white cup-shaped petals and a bright yellow center.

Ginseng root against a plain white background.

Ruth Sturley’s scrapbook in the “From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont” collection at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Libraries.

Botanical illustration of American ginseng from Jacob Bigelow’s American Medical Botany, 1817.

February 28, 1929 of Mr. A.P. Russell in his general store in Buckhannon, West Virginia, sitting beside a 1700-pound shipment of ginseng roots destined for China.

White pine, a tree with distinctive, sharp green needles attached to thin brown and orange stems.

Skullcap, a plant with small, purple, tubular flowers attached to a vertical green stem.

Sassafras, a plant with several small, green, three pronged leaves attached to thin green stems.

High John the Conqueror, a plant with small, green leaves attached to starch white flowers that are purple in the center.

Boneset, a plant with several long, pointed, green leaves attached to the base of the stem with bundles of white, bulb-like flowers at the top.