Hyoscyamus niger (Black Henbane), 2024
watercolour on paper, 20” x 14”

Hyoscyamus niger is despised today due to its deadly toxicity and foul smell, but for centuries it has been valued for its medicinal properties and spiritual uses. It was so valued as a cultivated medicinal herb that some of the earliest colonists and settlers brought seeds  to North America, likely as far back as the 17th century.