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  2. Yerba buena - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Clinopodium douglasii - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Yerba Buena, California - Wikipedia

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    The uninhabited northeastern area of San Francisco was called El Paraje de Yerba Buena (The Place of the Good Herb), derived from the Spanish geographical term paraje, meaning "place", "camp", or "stopping point" and yerba buena, the Spanish name for plants in the mint family, used in Alta California for Clinopodium douglasii, which grew abundantly in this area.

  5. Yerba Buena Island - Wikipedia

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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

  6. Yerba-maté - Wikipedia

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    The pronunciation of yerba mate in Spanish is [ˈɟʝeɾβa ˈmate]. [14] The stress on the word mAte falls on the first syllable. [14] The word hierba is Spanish for 'herb'; yerba is the variant spelling of hierba used throughout Latin America. [16] Yerba may be understood as 'herb', but also as 'grass

  7. Mexican tea culture - Wikipedia

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    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.

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  9. Juana Briones de Miranda - Wikipedia

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    Juana Briones de Miranda (c. 1802 – 1889) was a Californio ranchera, medical practitioner, and merchant, often remembered as the "Founding Mother of San Francisco", [1] [2] for her noted involvement in the early development of the city of San Francisco (then known as Yerba Buena).