Wild rose (Rosa species)
The cultivated and the wild roses have been plentiful and colorful this year. Fences and arbors are dripping with pink and red, and sometimes even yellow, roses. This wild rose is protected on one side by a wall of enormous poison ivy (to ward off people) and on the other by a stout fence (to ward off goats). Check in the archives for the recipe for rose petal honey. Anytime the roses are blooming is a great time to make it. Or just stop, and smell the roses, and smile.

Make rose petal honey

Rambling blackberry (Rubus species)
There are more than 200 species of blackberry in my area alone. This one is especially pernicious as it creeps across the ground, waiting to snag unwary ankles attached to dragging feet and tired legs. The foot slides under the thorny cane, then is lifted, and a strip of skin is neatly ripped from the front of the ankle. Ouch. Blackberry root tincture is a trusted herbal astringent.

White Avens (Geum canadense)
This rose family member is not listed as an herbal medicine, but two of her sisters are. There is water avens (Geum rivale), whose root counters diarrhea. And there is bennet (Geum urbanum) AKA Star of the earth, whose root, infused in wine, relieves chronic bronchial phlegm, so they say. Needless to say, like most of the smaller members of this family, avens is astringent.