#medicinal herbs
- Dropworts — Plural form of the regional noun aglică, denoting multiple specimens of plants belonging to the species Filipendula vulgaris (dropwort). In a folklore or dialectal context, the term is used to describe the bushes or inflorescences harvested from wild flora and used in traditional Carpathian phytotherapy.
- Ajuga chamaepitys — A species of small, annual or biennial herbaceous flowering plant in the genus Ajuga, family Lamiaceae, commonly known as yellow bugle or ground pine. It is characterized by its deeply three-lobed, narrow, hairy leaves that emit a strong resinous or pine-like fragrance when crushed, and by its yellow flowers with purple spots, typically growing in dry, calcareous soils and sunny meadows.
- Anthyllis — A genus of herbaceous plants or subshrubs in the family Fabaceae, commonly known as kidney vetch, characterized by odd-pinnate leaves and papilionaceous flowers grouped in dense heads surrounded by large, often pubescent bracts.
- Spurge (regional) — A rare regional popular name used in certain dialects for a species of herbaceous plant in the genus Euphorbia (spurge), characterized by the secretion of a white, toxic, and caustic latex used in empirical folk medicine.
- Artemisia — A genus of herbaceous plants or shrubs in the Asteraceae family, intensely aromatic and often with a very bitter taste, including species of great ecological and pharmaceutical importance such as wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) or mugwort. Many of these plant varieties contain volatile oils and bioactive compounds utilized since antiquity in traditional medicine, tonic liquor production, or as antiparasitic agents.
- Astragalus — A gigantic genus of herbaceous plants or small shrubs in the Fabaceae family, comprising over 3000 species distributed primarily throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Many species hold major structural importance in ecosystems, and the roots of some (such as Astragalus membranaceus) have been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine as immunostimulants, general tonics, and antioxidants, due to their high content of polysaccharides, saponins, and flavonoids.