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Latin NameCommon NameEdibility RatingMedicinal Rating
Agastache rugosaKorean Mint43
Agrimonia pilosaHairy Agrimony23
Allium fistulosumWelsh Onion52
Arnebia euchroma 02
Artemisia scopariaRedstem wormwood12
Aruncus dioicusGoat's Beard, Bride's feathers22
Asarum heterotropoides 02
Asarum sieboldiiWild Ginger02
Asparagus cochinchinensisChinese Asparagus33
Asparagus filicinusFern Asparagus21
Berberis chengii 12
Bupleurum chinenseBei Chai Hu23
Bupleurum falcatumThorow-Wax22
Cimicifuga heracleifoliaKomarov's Bugbane02
Clerodendrum cyrtophyllum 11
Coix lacryma-jobiJob's Tears33
Coptis chinensisHuang Lian03
Coptis deltoidea 02
Cupressus sempervirensItalian Cypress02
Desmodium caudatum 01
Eleutherococcus sessiliflorus 23
Elsholtzia ciliataCrested latesummer mint22
Euodia fraxinifolia 21
Fagus sylvaticaBeech, European beech, Common Beech42
Gentiana crassicaulis 03
Gentiana dahurica 03
Gentiana macrophyllaQin Jiao13
Gentiana straminea 03
Glehnia littoralisBei Sha Shen, American silvertop22
Lactuca serriolaPrickly Lettuce23
Ledebouriella seseloidesFang Feng12
Ligusticum brachylobum 02
Lycium barbarumGoji, Box Thorn, Matrimony vine43
Lycium chinenseChinese Boxthorn, Chinese desert-thorn43
Ophiopogon japonicusSnake's Beard, Dwarf lilyturf, Mondo Grass, Monkey Grass, Dwarf Lilyturf23
Paeonia suffruticosaMoutan, Moutan peony, Tree Peony, Japanese Tree Peony12
Perilla frutescensShiso, Beefsteakplant, Spreading Beefsteak Plant43
Perilla frutescens nankinensisPurple Shiso43
Phyllostachys bambusoidesMadake, Japanese timber bamboo41
Physalis pubescensGround Cherry, Husk tomato41
Polygonum multiflorumHe Shou Wu, Tuber fleeceflower23
Polygonum tinctorium 12
Prunella vulgarisSelf-Heal, Common selfheal, Aleutian selfheal, Lance selfheal23
Prunus armeniacaApricot43
Prunus mumeJapanese Apricot, Japanese Flowering, Apricot33
Pueraria montana chinensisMealy Kudzu03
Pueraria montana lobataKudzu Vine45
Rumex daiwoosour dock12
Scrophularia buergerianaBuerger's Figwort02
Scrophularia ningpoensis 03
Scutellaria baicalensisBaikal Skullcap - Huang-Qin13
Sophora tonkinensis 02
Spirodela polyrrhizaGreat Duckweed, Common duckmeat12
Thuja orientalisBiota13
Trapa bicornisLing, Horn nut41
Triticum aestivumBread Wheat, Common wheat42
Tulipa edulis 22
Viola yezoensisChinese Violet32
Persicaria odorataVietnamese coriander, Asian mint32
Solanum torvumPea Eggplant, Turkey berry33
Bombax ceibaRed Silk Cotton Tree, Kapok Tree22
Caesalpinia digynaTeri pods, Udakiryaka22
Manilkara zapotaSapodilla, Nispero52
Paullinia cupanaGuarana42
Phragmites australisCommon Reed, American common reed, Hybrid common reed, European common reed, Subtropical common re52
Phyllanthus emblicaEmblica, Indian Gooseberry35
Prunus armeniaca mandschuricaManchurian apricot43
Pueraria montanaKudzu Vine45
Senna singueanaWinter cassia, Sticky pod23
Sesbania grandifloraVegetable Hummingbird, Agati,32
Jasminum sambacJasmine Tea33
Andrographis paniculataGreen Chireta, Creat, Nilavembu, Kirayat, Chuan Xin Lian, King of Bitters14
Aspidosperma polyneuronPeroba Rosa02
Lantana camaraWild Sage, Lantana Verbena24
Scoparia dulcisSweet Broom, Licorice Weed, Vassourinha24
Tachia guianensisTachia04
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