Laboratory will focus on studying medicinal plants from the major ecosystems and geographical regions of the world. Students will learn common names, scientific names, plant families, field identification, habitats, and ethnomedical uses of medicinal plants. How the medicinal plant is prepared, administered, and used as a phytomedicine will also be discussed. There will be reference to the phylogenetic relationships between the plant families and genera represented by the medicinal plants.

Lab Zoom lectures will be given synchronously.

Students will visit the UC Botanical Garden to study and sketch the plants, while maintaining social distancing.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.