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Pinkroot, a tall plant with two pointed green leaves attached to a long green stem. The plant has several red tubular flowers at the top that are yellow in the center.

Red trillium, a flower with three maroon petals surrounded by large green leaves.

A Black woman in a grey dress with a white head covering is standing at a brown cutting board and grinding herbs.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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