2018 March 16 SPDS

Scutellaria lateriflora L.

Photo: Patrick J. Alexander, hosted by the USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database

Skullcap ( Scutellaria lateriflora L.)

• Aerial parts used in modern western  herbalism as a nervine, sedative, anxiolytic • First described in Tournefort’s The Compleat Herbal (1719) • Given current name by Linneaus in 1753