Bee Brush
Aloysia gratissima
Verbenaceae (Verbena Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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TXA note from Ginger:
Bee Brush is easy to walk past when it is not flowering. It is a non-descript shrub with gangly branches and small simple green leaves. But when it starts to flower in early spring, you will notice it not just for the pretty white flowering heads, but also for the loud buzz of pollinators swarming the plant and for the delicious scent of the flowers that can be detected several feet away. I see this plant often in San Antonio parks.
Ginger Webb, Community Herbalist, Botanist, Teacher & Mentor
Ginger Webb has been practicing herbalism for nearly 30 years, as a community herbalist, clinical herbalist, herbal medicine maker, wild plant lover, botanist, and teacher. She has trained scores of people to be herbalists through her programs at Sacred Journey School of Herbalism.
Her mission is to keep alive the craft of herbalism through modeling the age-old wisdom of being in right relationship with the plants, and she teaches her students to be stewards of the Earth and the plants first, and to make medicine only when the plants wholeheartedly provide consent.
