Cherokee Medicinal Plants and their Usage


We are starting this project to identify plants used by the Cherokee for food and medicine. If you can help with updating this page, please drop us a note.


Common NameScientific NameCherokee NameTransliteration
American Beech Fagus grandifolia
American Hogpeanut Amphicarpaea bracteata
American Hornbeam Carpinus caroliniana
Arrowwood Viburnum
Basswood Tilia americana
Big Leaf Magnolia Magnolia macrophylla
Black Cohosh Actaea racemosa
Black Walnut
Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis
Blue Wild Indigo Baptisia australis
Broomsedge Bluestem Andropogon virginicus
Buckbrush Ceanothus cuneatus
Cardinal FlowerLobelia cardinalis
CarolinaSilverbell Halesia carolina
Devil’s Walking Stick Aralia spinosa
Eastern Hemlock Tsuga canadensis
Elderberry Sambucus canadensis
FiddleheadsEarly Spring Vegetable
Flowering DogwoodCornus Florida
Fly Poison Amianthium musciloxicum
Grancy Gray Beard Chionanthus virginicus
Groundnut Apios americana
HepaticaHepatica nobilis
Indian Hemp Apocymun cannabinum
Jack-In-The-Pulpit Arisaema triphyllum
Leatherwood Dirca palustris
Mapleleaf Viburnum
Mapleleaf Viburnum
Mayapple
MayapplePodophyllum peltatum
Meadow Garlic Allium Canadense
Mountain Laurel Kalmia latifolia
Native American Persimmon
Native Gourds-Many Cherokee Uses
New Jersey Tea Ceanothus americanus
Osage Orange Tree
Partridgeberry Mitchella repens
Perfoliata Bellwort Uvularia perfoliata
River Cane
Rue Anemone Thalictrum thalictroides
Seven Bark Hydrangea
Shagbark Hickory
Shutterworth Ginger asarum shuttleworthii
Smooth Beardtongue Penstemon laevigatus
Sourwood Tree Oxydendrum arboretum
Sunchokes Helianthus tuberosus
Sweet EverlastingPseudognaphalium obtusifolium
Sweet Flag Acorus calamus
Trout Lily Erythronium americanum
Tulip Poplar
White Oak Quercus alba
Wild Onion
Yaupon Holly
Yellowwood Tree


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