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Dec 21, 2025
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PBIO 3030 - Medicinal Plants of Ohio
Summer workshop. Identification, history, and uses of medicinal plants; characteristics of herb families; preparation of simple herbal remedies. Field trips to conifer woods, flood plain, cove forest, wetland, and commercial herb-growing establishment.
Credit Hours: 2
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Basic understanding of various plant habitats where medicinal plants are found.
- Identification of medicinal, edible, and poisonous plants growing wild or cultivated in Ohio.
- Recognition of native, non-native, and invasive plant species.
- Understanding of basic herbal preparations and practice of techniques used to produce them.
- Understanding of how plants are used in historic, folk, alternative, and contemporary medicine.
- Understanding of plant morphology needed for keying and identification of medicinal plants.
- Utilization of a botanical key for medicinal plant identification.
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