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Apr 23, 2024
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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: - Students will be able to identify medicinal, poisonous, and edible plants growing wild or cultivated in Ohio.
- Students will be able to describe various plant habitats where medicinal plants are found.
- Students will be able to recognize native, non-native, and invasive plant species.
- Students will be able to use basic techniques to preserve herbs and make basic herbal preparations.
- Students will be able to describe how various plants are used in historic, folk, alternative, and contemporary medicine.
- Students will be able to recognize plant morphology necessary for keying and identification of medicinal plants.
- Students will be able to utilize a botanical key for medicinal plant identification.
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