Chaparral
Larrea tridentata
Zygophyllaceae (Caltrop Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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TXA note from Ginger:
Sonoran desert ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan describes the impact of this plant with just the title of one of his books: The Desert Smells Like Rain. Known by so many names -- chaparral, creosote bush, gobernadora, hediondilla-- this plant is intensely aromatic and the scent of its volatile oils is even more pronounced when you add some precipitation. Anyone who has travelled through chaparral covered land after rain or snow can tell you: the whole desert smells of chaparral.
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.
