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Yerba buena or hierba buena is the Spanish name for a number of aromatic plants, most of which belong to the mint family. Yerba buena translates as "good herb". The specific plant species regarded as yerba buena varies from region to region, depending on what grows wild in the surrounding landscape, or which species is customarily grown in ...
The area included Yerba Buena Cove, a favored anchorage, and the name was later extended to the Isla de la Yerba Buena (Yerba Buena Island), which faced the cove. In 1835, the civilian pueblo of Yerba Buena was founded on the shores of the cove, which would later grow into the American city of San Francisco.
Hierba buena (Good herb) is a name given to a variety of mint teas sold loose in many markets. This is similar to yerba mate, used throughout many Latin American countries as mate, and widely regarded to have health benefits.
Two years later, when Watters organized the traditional jazz band, the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, he joined it. [1] (Yerba Buena was the original name for San Francisco, California.) Except for three and a half years, from 1942 to 1946, when Scobey served in the U. S. Army during World War II, he remained in the band.
Eriodictyon californicum is an evergreen aromatic shrub with woody rhizomes, typically found in clonal stands growing to a height of 3 to 4 feet (0.91 to 1.22 m). [2] The dark green, leathery leaves are narrow, oblong to lanceolate, and up to 15 centimeters (5.9 in) in length.
Yerba Buena Gardens, 24-acre (97,000 m 2) mixed-use development of an art center, theater, offices, retail, hotel, gardens; co-master planner and conceptual designer (1980) Aliamanu Valley Community , 525 buildings housing 11,500 people; Corps of Engineers, Honolulu, Hawaii (1979)
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The plant's English and Spanish common name, Yerba buena, is an alternate form of the Spanish hierba buena (literally meaning 'good herb'), generally used to describe local species of the mint family. Today, [when?] the military reservation southeast of the Yerba Buena Tunnel belongs to the United States Coast Guard (USCG) District