Tags

TAG KEY

Here’s an example of the tags at the bottom of each feature in our Wild Plants series, for Dandelion in this case:
Air, Alterative, Asteraceae, Attracts Bees and Butterflies, Bitters, Calling Spirits, Cardiovascular, Circulatory, Compost, Cool and Moist, Digestive, Disturbed Soil, Diuretic, Divination, Dye, F:Yellow, Full sun, Integumentary, Jupiter, Laxative, Lithotriptic, Lymphatic, Perennial, Urinary,Wishes, YANG

And here’s what they mean:

(FAMILY) Apocynaceae,Asteraceae, Balsaminaceae, Betulaceae, Fabaceae, Scrophulariaceae

(DURATION) Annual, Biennial, Perennial

(ENVIRONMENT) Borders of Paths, Damp or Wet Places, Dry Open Roadsides, Dry or Damp Roadside Ditches, Clearings and Old Fields, Mixed Woods on Hummus Over Granite or Sand, Old Fields, Open Banks, Open Hillsides, Roadsides, Sandy Waste Ground, etc., as stated in Haliburton Flora: An Annotated List of the Vascular Plants of the County of Haliburton, Ontario

(SOIL TYPE) Clay, Disturbed Soil, Dry Soil, Loamy, Moderate Sandy, Muck or Hummus, Silty, Wet Soil, etc., as stated in Haliburton Flora: An Annotated List of the Vascular Plants of the County of Haliburton, Ontario

(SUN REQUIREMENTS or preference) Full sun, Partial shade, Shade

(FLOWER COLOUR TAGS) F: Red, Pink, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Lavender, Purple, White

(ENERGETICS BASIC) 

(ENERGETICS ADVANCED) 

(12 SYSTEMS) 

(GENDER TAGS) YIN or YANG

(PLANET TAGS) Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

(ELEMENT TAGS) Earth, Air, Fire, Water

(POWER TAGS) Calling Spirits, Courage, Divination, Exorcism, Fidelity, Healing, Health, Love, Money, Protection, Success, Wishes For fun – magical intentions as listed in Encyclopaedia of Magical Herbs.

ID INFO/FEATURES TAGS

I was going to include these originally but will write up a feature on the most thorough ID sites instead.

EXTRAS

Dye

Nitrogen Fixer

Compost

Attracts Birds

Attracts Bees and Butterflies

More tags like these may be introduced over time.