The Southern Appalachian Mountains are home to many herbs essential to modern herbalism. This class introduces you to five lesser-known but powerful herbs that belong in your herbal apothecary. All are available from commercial herb suppliers, and several can be grown in your garden, and all are sustainable sources of medicine. Expand your materia medica by learning to use Turtlehead, Chelone glabra, Stoneroot, Collinsonia canadensis, Yellowroot Xanthorhiza simplicissima and Boneset Eupatorium perforatum.

Patricia Kyritsi Howell, RH(AHG) is the author of Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians, the founder/director of the BotanoLogos School of Herbal Studies, and one of the teachers for Crafting Your Herbal Practice, an online course for student practitioners (www.yourherbalpractice.com)  Patricia coordinates both the Registered Herbalist membership application process for the American Herbalists Guild and their annual symposium. She lives in Tiger, Georgia, where there are no tigers but many wild herbs.