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In the Spanish and Mexican eras of San Francisco, the undeveloped northwestern corner of San Francisco, where the plant was abundant, was given the name El Paraje de Yerba Buena (Place of the Yerba Buena). 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 ...
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 ...
Mentha × villosa is a herbaceous, rhizomatous, perennial plant that grows to be 30–60 cm (12–24 in) tall, with smooth stems, square in cross section. The rhizomes are wide-spreading and fleshy, and bear fibrous roots .
Erosion control: Because plant materials (stems, crowns, etc.) can remain in place year-round, topsoil erosion due to wind and rainfall/irrigation is reduced [11]; Water-use efficiency: Because these crops tend to be deeper and more fibrously-rooted than their annual counterparts, they are able to hold onto soil moisture more efficiently, [12] while filtering pollutants (e.g. excess nitrogen ...
Yerba mate or yerba-maté [2] (Ilex paraguariensis; from Spanish [ˈɟʝeɾβa ˈmate]; Portuguese: erva-mate, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɛɾvɐ ˈmatɨ] or [ˈɛʁvɐ ˈmatʃi]; Guarani: ka'a, IPA:) is a plant species of the holly genus Ilex native to South America. [3] It was named by the French botanist Augustin Saint-Hilaire. [4]
The most likely explanation is that mansa is a Spanish alteration of the original native word for the plant, now lost in the depths of time." [8] Hartweg, who collected it at León, Guanajuato in 1837, recorded the local name as yerba del manso. [9] It is also known as yerba del manso in northern Baja California. The word "manso" could be short ...
Dysphania ambrosioides is an annual or short-lived perennial herb, growing to 1.2 m (4 ft) tall, irregularly branched, with oblong-lanceolate leaves up to 12 cm (4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long. The flowers are small and green, produced in a branched panicle at the apex of the stem.
Eriodictyon angustifolium, common name narrowleaf yerba santa, is a perennial shrub. The plant is native to pinyon-juniper woodland habits of western North American deserts. It is found in the Mojave Desert in California , Nevada , & Utah ; and in Baja California .