Garrya or Silk Tassel
Garrya Lindheimeri
Garryaceae (Silk Tassel Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
A note from Ginger:
Over the long hellishly hot summer of 2023, I witnessed many stands of Silk Tassel die back. The ones sheltered by the junipers survived, but many along the edges of the woods turned black. I am not sure if they will come back. Due to this setback for the local Garrya species, I no longer will be harvesting from our stands. I will pay close attention over the coming years. I am rooting for the Silk Tassel.
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.
