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[ Home > The Most Important Herb Families ]
| The Most Important Herb Families The reflective herb gardener must often wonder at the comparative rarity of plants useful for fragrance or flavor among the huge complex of the plant world. Of the thousands of garden plants grown in America, often in container gardens, for food, color, fibers, gums, to attract birds to the bird feeders, and many other uses, only a handful are herbs in the restricted sense-that is, savory, fragrant, or yielding what our ancestors called simples. Even more strange is the fact that herbs are not quite wholly, but overwhelmingly, confined to only five plant families. In the order of their importance to the herb gardener these are: (1) Parsley family (Umbelliferae); (2) Mint family (Labiatae); (3) Aster family (Compositae); (4) Lily family (Liliaceae); (5) Mustard family (Cruciferae). These botanical families all contain thousands of species, and the enquiring gardener may often wish to explore the possibility of flavors found among the relatives of the plants admitted into this website. For that reason, the plant family of all the plants will be specified. No one, except the most inquisitive of herb gardeners, looking for garden decorations, needs to know the plant family to which his favorite herb belongs, but to those looking to expand the scope of savory herbs it will be a useful guide. Page 1: Why we need herbs |
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