Desert Willow
Chilopsis linearis
BIGNONIACEAE (catalpa Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
A note from Ginger:
As the name suggests, this small tree can be found in the deserts of the southwest US. Its leaves are similar to willow (Salix spp.) leaves, although it is not related to the willow tree in any other way. I have seen it growing wild in the far reaches of the Texas Hill Country, but around Austin we will generally find it as a landscape plant. Its flowers are beautiful and inviting and have a delicious aromatic scent. The bark can be tinctured fresh or dried for decoctions.
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.
