Herbology of the Wizarding World

[The New Ages]

The following list is not a complete list of all plants found in the Wizarding World, but it is a list that is as complete as we can make. Most of these plants would be covered in Herbology, Years 1-7, but most plants covered would also be recognizable by almost anyone in the Wizarding World, although properties may not be known.



The following list and descriptions were comprised from HP-Lexicon, Harry Potter Wiki, and J.K. Rowling. The linked images are copyright their respective owners. The New Ages Admin does not take any credit for the following.

[The New Ages]

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Abyssinian Shrivelfig - a magical plant that originated in Abyssinia. When skinned, the liquid inside the plant, which is purple in color

Aconite/Monkshood/Wolfsbane - a plant with magical proprieties. Once wide-spread, this plant is now only found in wild places. Its flowers are useful in potion-making, but its leaves are very toxic

Alihotsy - eating this plant causes hysteria

Angel's Trumpet - a genus of flowering plants. All parts of the plant contain dangerous levels of poison and may be fatal if ingested by humans or animals

Arnica - related to the sunflower and contains certain toxins that can be poisonous if ingested

Asphodel - a member of the lily family and has long and slender leaves. It is found worldwide and has both magical and non-magical uses. Powdered root of Asphodel is used in the creation of various potions

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Baneberry - a genus of flowering plants. The berries are the most poisonous part of the plant

Belladonna - a mundane plant with magical uses. Fluids from the poisonous plant are used in potions. The seed of the Belladonna plant is purple

Bloodroot - a perennial flowering plant. Its flowers have delicate white petals and yellow reproductive parts and extracts kill animal cells

Boom Berry - a fruit whose juice has restorative proprieties and it is used in potion-making

Bouncing Bulb - a magical plant which jumps around if it is not restrained. Bouncing Bulbs' main stem is a disproportionate purple bulb, with a bunch of leaves growing on the top. Young Bouncing Bulbs are small enough to handle, but mature ones can reach the size of doorways. Bouncing Bulbs can be aggressive when they feel threatened; they jump towards the possible attacker and try to hit it.

Bubotuber - A bubotuber looks like a thick, black, giant slug with many large shiny swellings on it that are filled with a yellow-green pus that smells like petrol. The pus reacts oddly with human skin. Undiluted, it will raise horribly painful boils on contact, but properly diluted and processed can be used to cure acne.

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Chinese Chomping Cabbage - mundane plant with magical properties

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Daisy - mundane plant with magical properties

Dandelion - mundane plant with magical properties

Deadlyius - a mushroom used as a potion ingredient

Death Cap - a poisonous mushroom used in potions

Devil's Snare - Devil's Snare is composed of a mass of soft, springy tendrils and vines that possess some sense of touch. Devil's Snare uses its creepers and tendrils to ensnare anyone who touches it, binding their arms and legs and eventually choking them. The harder a person struggles against Devil's Snare, the more faster and more tightly it binds them; if they relax, it will not kill them as quickly. Devil's Snare prefers a dark, damp environment and shrinks away from fire, so a well-placed flame spell such as "bluebell flames" will drive it away from its victims.

Dirigible Plum - an orange radish-like fruit. Dirigible plums grow upside-down on small bushes. Enhances the "ability to accept the extraordinary"

Dittany - mundane plant with magical powers of powerful restoration. It sometimes releases flammable vapors

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Fanged Geranium - This plant apparently superficially resembles Devil's Snare in appearance, but is non-violent

Fire Seed Bush - a reddish, spiky, plant. It produces the Fire Seeds which are used as potion ingredients

Flitterbloom - a magical plant that apparently has long, swaying tentacles. It bears a superficial resemblance to the deadly plant Devil's Snare, but it is harmless, so much so that wizards and witches keep it as a pot plant or grow it in their gardens

Floo - a flowering plant with magical properties

Flutterby Bush - a plant that quivered and shook. It produced flowers once a century that adapted their scent to attract the unwary

Fluxweed - mundane plant with magical properties

Foxglove - a flowering plant used in potion-making

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Germander - a plant used in the making of treacle fudge and in potions

Gillyweed - Native to the Mediterranean, this water plant looks like a bundle of slimy, greyish-green rat tails. When eaten, gives a person gills to breathe underwater and gives them webbed hands and feet for swimming. The duration of the gillyweed effect is approximately one hour

The effects of gillyweed were first discovered by Elladora Ketteridge; about a century later, gillyweed was re-discovered by Beaumont Marjoribanks

Ginger - used in cooking as a highly-flavored spice

Goosegrass - a species of plant in the madder family that is yellow in color

Gurdyroot - resembles a green onion and has an unpleasant taste

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Henbane - a poisonous plant with green-yellow leaves. Has been used medicinally at some points in history, as it has anesthetic qualities, alongside a number of other unpleasant side-effects

Hellebore - a flowering plant used in Herbology and as an ingredient in Potion-brewing. Syrup of Hellebore is a substance extracted from the Hellebore plant. Many species of Hellebore are poisonous

Honking Daffodil - daffodil in every way except for the noise that it makes

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Knotgrass - mundane plant with magical properties

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Lavender - a flower noted for its beautiful color and calming fragrance. It can be used as an ingredient in a variety of potions

Leaping Toadstool - a magical mushroom which presumably has the ability to jump

Lichen - a symbiosis of at least two quite different organisms. The partnership always involves a fungus, which lives with one or more partners which can do photosynthesis. The photobiont partner may be a green alga and/or a cyanobacterium

Lovage - a plant similar to celery, whose fruit and seeds are used in cooking. It has been used in herbal medicines for centuries

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Mallowsweet - a hallucinogenic-like plant that clears the mind and eyesight

Mandragora/Mandrake - The Mandrake root is a powerful restorative. It forms an essential part of most antidotes, including one for Petrification. The Mandrake Restorative Draught returns people who have been Transfigured or cursed to their original state. Mandrake seedlings are tufty little plants, purplish green in color with what look like tiny babies growing where the roots would be. These creatures grow and develop over the course of several months until they mature and can be harvested and used for potions. The cry of the Mandrake is fatal to humans, so special care must be taken when growing them. Even as a baby, the Mandrake's howls can knock a person out for a couple of hours.

Mimbulus Mimbletonia - Very rare and native to Assyria, this plant resembles a grey cactus, but with boils where the spines would have been. The boils are a defensive mechanism that spews Stinksap upon contact. Stinksap is a non-poisonous liquid and is dark green and smells like "rancid manure"

Mistletoe - a parasitic plant with white berries, traditionally used as a Christmas decoration and is used as a potion ingredient

Moly - a magical herb that protects against Dark Enchantments. Molys can be easily recognized by their black stems and white or blue flowers

Moondew - a flowering plant found in Scotland. The magical properties of Moondew were discovered by druidess Cliodna in the Middle Ages. Moondew is used in potion-making in liquid form

Moonseed - a plant, which seeds resemble a crescent moon. All parts of these plants are known to be poisonous

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Nettle - a widespread plant known for the stinging hairs that grows on its leaves

Nux Myristica - a plant with magical proprieties that is used in potion-making

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Plangentine - a plant in which both the fruit and flower are used as a potion ingredients

Peppermint - often used to flavor sweets and teas, it is also used as a potion ingredient

Privet - of the olive family, a mundane plant with magical properties

Puffapod - fat pink pods with seeds that burst into flower if dropped

Pumpkin - a muggle plant/vegetable commonly used in the Wizarding

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R

Rose Thorn - sharp, hard structures found on the stem of a rose

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Sage - a plant that clears the mind when burned

Screechsnap - Semi-sentient plant with the ability to move and make noise

Scurvy-Grass - a biennial herb that grows in salt marshes or along the seashore in northern and western Europe and Great Britain

Self-Fertilizing Shrubs - a plant that feeds on flesh. Given its name, it has the ability of producing its own fertiliser

Silverweed - a species of plant in the rose family. It is used in potion-making and is yellow in color, and some substances are able to conserve it

Snarfalump - a species of the genus Tilia native to southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia

Snargaluff - a plant with the appearance of a gnarled stump, but hides dangerous thorn-covered vines that attack when provoked and is usually best handled by more than one person. It contains green pulsating pods about the size of a grapefruit which can be extracted. These are then broken open and the contents, which resemble pale green tubers, collected in bowls

Sopophorous bean - a shriveled bean with magical properties and an ingredient in potion-making. May prove very difficult to squeeze juice from as the bean is very hard and may bounce when punctured with the blade of a knife. However, crushing the bean with the flat side of a silver knife is a more simple and effective method of obtaining the juice

Snakeweed - a magical plan commonly known as Bistort

Sneezewort - mundane plant with magical properties, poisonous to livestock

Staghorn - a species of mushroom with a flat, brownish cap

Star Grass - a medicinal herb that was once used in potion brewing

Starthistle - a plant used as an ingredient in potions

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Trees
---Acacia - Often used to make wands
---Alder - common name of a genus of flowering plants belonging to the birch family. Often used to make wands
---Ash - a type of tree belonging to the genus flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae. Often used to make brooms and wands
---Beech - common name for the deciduous trees in the family of Fagaceae, native to Europe Asia, and North America. Often used to make wands
---Birch - a tree or shrub of the genus Betula. Often used to make wands
---Blackthorn - Prunus spinosis a species of Prunus native to Europe, western Asia, and locally in northwest Africa. Often used to make wands
---Black Walnut - Juglans nigra is native to Eastern North America. Often used to make wands
---Cedar - a genus of coniferous trees in the plant family Pinaceae. They are native to the mountains of the western Himalaya and the Mediterranean region
---Cherry - is any member of the four following subgenera of the genus Prunus: Cerasus, Lithocerasus, Padus or Laurocerasus, though the term is often used to refer to the Japanese Cherry Blossom. Often used to make wands
---Cypress - the name applied to many of the plants belonging to the cypress family, Cupressaceae, which is a conifer of northern temperate regions
---Ebony - the term refers to any very dense, black wood. However, in a botanical context it refers to any of the genus Diospyros. Often used to make wands
---Elm - deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus. Often used to make wands
---Elder - Sambucus is a genus of moschatel family, Adoxaceae. The genus is native in temperate-to-subtropical regions of both the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. Often used to make wands
---Gravity-Resistant - presumably, a tree that floats. A wizard in Nepal was growing this species of tree
---Hazel - a genus of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate northern hemisphere. Often used to make wands
---Holly - any plant belonging to the genus Ilex. Often used to make wands (symbolic of resurrection)
---Hornbeam - relatively small hardwood trees in the genus Carpinus and the birch family, Betulaceae. Often used to make wands
---Mahogany - a hard, reddish-brown wood that is harvested from several tropical tree species, mainly in the Caribbean. Often used to make wands and brooms
---Maple - is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as maple. Often used to make wands (excellent for transfiguration)
---Oak - commonly known as the Pedunculate oak or the English oak. It is indigenous to most of Europe, and to Anatolia to the Caucasus, and also to parts of North Africa. Often used to make wands (symbolic of strength)
---Poplar - deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. Often used to make wands
---Rowan - shrubs or small trees in genus Sorbus of family Rosaceae. They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Often used to make wands
---Rosewood - refers to any of a number of richly hued timbers. Often used to make wands
---Silver Lime - a species of the genus Tilia native to southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia. Often used to make wands
---Sycamore - Acer pseudoplatanus is a species of maple native to central Europe and southwestern Asia. Often used to make wands
---Wiggentree - a magical rowan. Its bark is used in potion-brewing and often is guarded by Bowtruckles
---Willow - any tree or shrub of the genus Salix. Often used to make wands
---Whomping Willow - A species superficially resembling the willow, that is very valuable, very violent. Whomping Willows attack anyone and anything that come within range of its branches. A deciduous plant, its limbs function as arms and any damage to them must be treated in much the same way
---Vine - in the broad sense refers to any climbing or trailing plant. Often used to make wands
---Yew - a highly poisonous variety of coniferous shrub from the genus Taxus. Often used to make wands - (symbolic of death and resurrection)

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images.wikia.com/harrypotter/images/f/f1/Umbrella_Flowers.jpg]Umbrella Flower - giant plants in the shape of an umbrella

V

Valerian - a plant with magical properties

Venomous Tentacula - A green, spiky, toothsome plant with mobile vines that try to grab living prey. Venomous Tentacula expels venom from its shoots, and its spikes are deadly. Its bite is highly poisonous

W

Wartizome - a magical plant

Wormwood- a very bitter herb, used in potion-making since ancient times. Wormwood is purported to have a wide range of uses

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