Archer Bush: The archer bush is a small plant, two to three feet in height. It has needles (similar to a pine tree) rather than leaves. The needles are dark green (almost black) in color, which are filled with a very toxic sap. Merely brushing up against the bush causes an irritating rash lasting 1d4 days. If the sap somehow enters a victim's bloodstream, the victim must make an unmodified saving throw vs. poison or die immediately. If the save is successful, the victim loses half of their hit points and must spend the next 1d4 days in bed resting.

Asarabacca: The asarabacca plant is a creeping vine with many small leaves, each on their own stalk. The plant's flowers are small and purple. A brew made from the flowers is capable of rendering a victim docile and incapable of violence.

Barkrest Tree: The barkrest tree is a very tall, thin tree which sways and dances with the slightest breeze. It has emerald green spade shaped leaves and bears oddly squarish-shaped fruit. These small fruit are bright blue, grow in clusters near the top and make the tree easy to recognize. The barkrest fruit has a very strong minty flavor. It can be eaten straight or used in dishes. Taors often eat this fruit after meals to freshen the breath. The Taors also extract the juice from this fruit and use it to create a perfume. The name "barkrest" is of unknown origins. Many scholars believe that it is the fusion of the words "bark" and "rest". However, it is not known how those two words relate to the tree.

Battlespice Bush: The battlespice bush is a nondescript flowering shrub found growing wild in the northern grasslands west and southwest of the Ravenwood. The reason the bush is sought out, however, is for its roots. The battlespice drug is made by drying and grinding the bright orange fleshy roots of this plant.

Battlespice is a very powerful drug. Shortly after consuming it, a user enters a berserk rage similar to the Barbarian class ability of the same name. Strength, reflexes, and visual acuity are greatly increased and the affected person can ignore pain and continue to fight until completely exhausted. There are side effects, however, including bloodshot eyes, foaming at the mouth, fever, incoherency, and occasionally horrific hallucinations. It is impossible to do anything other than fight while under the influence of the drug. The drug is highly addictive, usually hooking the user after one dose.  Battlespice is highly prized by some Rostok, Choyen, and Goblin tribes. Elsewhere, its use is seen as shameful.

Beehaven: These long white-to-yellow flowers have a distinct odor when they are first blooming, and can be smelled by anyone up to 100 yards away. The odor is strong, sweet, and cloying; the smell overpowers everything else to the point that it can make food taste different just from the smell alone. Beehaven grows in large bushes and blooms in the spring. It gains its name from the fact that bees swarm the flower in huge numbers. Fanciers of flowers are warned to be careful when picking Beehaven.

Beetle Palm: Beetle palm trees, named for the black bark that looks like a beetle's shell, grow to heights of 100 feet or more. Clusters of spindly, leafless branches crown the otherwise smooth trunks. The wood contains oily deposits that make it exceptionally flammable.  It burns nearly three times as long as other types of wood and produces about half the amount of smoke.

Black Mushroom:  This large fungus is found in growing in the caves and caverns of the EasterSea coast.  They prefer to grow in caves enriched with bat guano.  The black mushroom can grow to a height of 4 feet, with a cap nearly twice that in diameter.  It exudes a rich earthy scent and is colored a dull grayish black.  The entire fungus is edible; Barinds find it to be a delicacy and "mushroom hunters", using trained pigs to assist them, can make a fine living selling the black mushrooms at market.

Bloodroot: Bloodroot is a perennial herb with thick roots, shiny, white, eight-petaled flowers, and a reddish sap. The plant blossoms in early spring and is commonly found in rich woodlands. All parts of the plant are poisonous. Contact with the sap causes skin rashes.

Blood Rose Vines: This fast-growing, thorny weed overgrows everything, even tangleweed. Blood rose vines have been known to crack building stones and split roadways. Once a year, during the last week of summer, the vines sprout thousands of tiny flowers. The flowers are shaped and colored like red roses, giving the vines their name. These flowers die and fall 10 days after blooming.

It is the flowers that make the Blood Rose Vine an occasional killer of men. The pollen of the blood rose vine is a powerful narcotic. Anyone brushing against the plant, or travelling near them on a windy day must make a Constitution roll every round until they bathe or leave the area, whichever is applicable. Those who fail the roll falls into a deep sleep. Anyone falling asleep next to or within a blood rose patch will be entirely entangled by the fast-growing vines in 12 hours and will take 1 point of Killing damage for every hour thereafter. The victim will awaken naturally with no ill effects 2d6 hours after being removed from the patch.

Blueback Mushrooms: These small fungi grow nearly everywhere in Taranche, and are easily discerned from their non-poisonous cousins by the dark blue color of the tops of their caps. They have a pleasant, earthy taste, and in some parts of the world are grown as a narcotic. If the person eating the mushrooms fails a saving throw vs. poison, he becomes light-headed and euphoric, and cannot easily stand or walk, as if they were under the effects of a Fumble spell for 48 hours.

Chime Oak:  Chime oak trees thrive in the northern reaches and the Chayk lands. They resemble normal oak trees made of clear glass. Aside from their appearance, chime oaks are indistinguishable from other oaks; birds nest in their branches, they sprout and grow from  seedlings, their limbs can be cut and burned for firewood. Unlike normal oaks, however, chime oaks don't lose their leaves in the autumn. Instead, the leaves freeze solid, remaining frozen throughout the autumn and winter until they thaw in the spring.  Light breezes cause the frozen leaves to tinkle like wind chimes, producing a soothing, pleasant sound.

Deadman Moss: Deadman moss thrives only in dark, damp places. It is commonly found in caves, the hollows of trees, and so forth. It is white and stringy, resembling nothing no much as limp spaghetti noodles. Deadman moss exudes a sap which is a lethal contact poison; a single touch is often sufficient to cause death.

Deathcap Mushrooms: The deathcap mushroom is small and white, with many small purple dots on its cap. Eating the mushroom is ill advised, since it is extremely toxic, entering the bloodstream and destroying the victim's red blood cells.

Devilroot: Devilroot is a rare plant, but easily recognizable from its blue-black "horned" leaves. The plant's forked root is a deep crimson in color and averages a foot in length when fully grown. When dried and prepared in the proper fashion, the root yields a powder which can cause death within a few minutes unless a successful saving throw is made.

Duskwood: Duskwood trees can grow to be 60 feet tall. These straight trees have smooth, bare trunks marked by crowns of tiny branches. Duskwoods are named for the dark appearance of stands of these closely-clustered black trunks. Under the black bark (which shows a silver-gray color when broken or peeled) is wood that is smoky gray and hard as iron. These trees are hardy and resistant to fire; they smolder rather than blaze when set aflame.

Echowood Tree: These decidious trees grow almost exclusively in the Ravenwood. They naturally reverberate any sound that strikes them. As such, they are prized in the making of many musical instruments.

Featherleaf: This small plant produces small blue flowers that are no bigger than a quarter of an inch across. The flowers grow on every bit of the plant, and when they are fully in bloom look like blue feathers swaying in the wind. Featherleaf is native to swampland, and is very difficult to cultivate in other places. The flowers and the root of the Featherleaf plant smell vaguely like liccorice, and is occasionally used as a spice.

Fellwood Tree: These gnarled, twisted trees have a deep brown, crumbling bark (old bark constantly rots and flakes away from a mature fellwood). Young fellwood trees are light green in color and are fresh and soft. After the tree is 10 or more years old (and 3 or more feet in height), they begin to darken and twist. Their roots curve deeper and the winds begin to shape their frail trunks. Fellwoods grow on rocky crags and cliff edges, and are often the only tree cover in many cold, rocky areas. In spring, these trees flower with vivid yellow and purple flowers. Fellwood burns poorly and is too weak and gnarled to be used to make furniture or buildings.

Firemoss: Firemoss is composed of thousands of tiny curled tendrils that form a thick, soft mass of vegetation. It clings closely to rock surfaces at high altitudes in cold regions. It is usually a dark greyish green. Healers in the north seek this plant out, for when it water is added and it it ground into a paste, it warms and heals any frostbitten flesh it is applied to.  Firemoss is very susceptible to fire as it burns easily. Otherwise, it is very difficult to kill and thrives in almost any conditions. It cannot, however, survive in temperate or tropical lands.

Firestar: This plant has many small white flowers (usually about a dozen per plant) each with a tiny blue center. These plants grow in clusters of 1 to 5 blossoms. The blue core of each flower holds the powdery pollen of the plant. This pollen is a strong hallucinogen for all mammals. The pollen can be extracted from the plant and purified into a potent drug. This, however, is a long and painstaking process. The drug is known simply as Firestar. It is a very strong depressant which works on all mammals. It does not work on other life forms. The drug produces extreme hallucinations, incoherency and addiction.

Foxberry Bush:  Foxberries resemble bright yellow grapes, and grow on snaky vines found in temperate forests.  Foxberries are greasy to the touch and smell like cooked steak.  One of the world's few fruits digestible by carnivores, they make an acceptable meal for wolves or other meat eaters during times of scarce game.  Humans can subsist on them as well, though despite their delicious aroma they are horridly sour.

Foxtail: Foxtail is a short-stemmed plant usually found in meadows and grasslands, has dark red flowers during the late summer months.

Ghostwood Tree: This tall conifer is noted for its high-quality, pale cream colored wood. When polished, the wood images as if it was a smoky mirror.

Hallorn’s Rest Mushroom: This mushroom grows in shady hollows during the summer months. It can be recognized by its dirty white color, large "hat", and long root. It is a very stong hallucinogen when dried.

Hartsbloom: This yellowish-green flower is native to the forests of the cold north. It grows in clumps of 3 to 6 plants that intertwine around whatever low-lying bushes or trees in the area. Hartsbloom vines have long, sharp thorns that make the flower hard to pick. The flowers of the Hartsbloom are about the size of a man's fist and have a dusty, unpleasant odor. The flower gets its name from the effect this odor has on deer: these animals find the hartsbloom scent very attractive. Hunters sometimes use this fact to their advantage.

Kelevenin Red Oak: The Kelevenin red oak is a broad tree with dark grey, horny bark and large, five loped dark green leaves. It is easily distinguished by its blood red-inner wood. Kelevenin red oak is highly prized because of the deep blood colored resin that permeates the woody interior of the tree. This resin soaked wood is impervious to the dreaded hull worm, and ships made of this wood are prized by sailors. Typically, only the hull of such ships is fashioned from red oak. When funds are tight, a ship owner will sometimes build the hull from standard lumber and put one layer of red oak planks on top as a skin for the hull to keep the hull worms at bay.

Red oak is typically three to four times as expensive as "normal" lumber. It is found only in the central forests of Keleven, and the government of that country values it as worth many times its weight in gold. Most of the ships in the royal Kelevenin navy have their hulls fashioned from this wood. By royal decree, only certain licensed traders may export red oak, and the forests are patrolled regularly to prevent illegal harvesting of the trees.

Medquat:  Medquat is a crimson lichen found inside hollow logs, particularly camphor. The soft lichen tastes like lemons and is highly prized by Calafian gourmets.  Those collecting medquat should be careful groping around in camphor logs; scorpions adore the scent of medquat and like to cover themselves in it.

Moonbloom: This medium-sized white flower blooms only at night; from this it gains its name. It is considered holy by the church of Rian.  Moonbloom is a climbing vine; it will grow to cover any nearby object. In some cases, a vine tangle grows so thickly it covers an entire building, blocking entrances and eventually filling rooms. Those who cultivate it are very careful to keep it cut back as much as possible. It blooms in late winter and all through the spring. In the summer, seed pods form, and these harden and break open in the fall. The seeds of the Moonbloom are poisonous if eaten.

Puffball Trap:  The puffball trap looks like a dandelion whose puff has slipped down its stem to the ground.  The stem can grow some seven feet tall, and ends in hard reddish knobs.  The puffball itself is some four feet in diameter and looks fragile, if pretty.  The plant sends out a network of rootlets that spread along the surface of the ground in all directions to a distance of about eight feet around the puffball.  At times, these rootlets are hidden under other vegetation.

It is in the way the puffball trap reproduces that makes it the threat to all other types of life.  The network of rootlets not only serve the standard purpose of obtaining nutrients from the soil, they also serve as triggering devices.  When a wandering animal or creature steps on one, the puffball explodes, filling a 15 foot sphere around the stem with millions of tiny barbed seeds.  Unless passersby have taken some sort of precaution, they are 100% likely to inhale some seeds.  These seeds sprout in the infected creature's longs in 2 to 12 days.  The victim is forced into immobility within three days after that, and will die painfully twenty days after infection.  A new puffball trap will appear, having consumed the infected body, within a month after the infected victim dies.

The plant only possesses a puffball during the spring and summer months.

Red Dragons: This red flower is named such because its bloom looks somewhat like a dragonish head. Botanists have bred this flower so that yellow, orange, and even purple blossoms are possible. They have no odor. Red dragons are easily grown in nearly any climate, as long as they are given enough water and sunlight. Their petals are sometimes used to produce a red clothing dye. Most farmers consider them useless weeds.

Roseneedle Pine: Roseneedle pines thrive along the banks of rivers, growing there the year round. They resemble miniature evergreens, seldom exceeding three feet tall. A roselike blossom, pink or white, sprouts from the end of each tiny needle. A roseneedle's roots extend ten or more feet into the ground, each ending in a fat tuber the size of a potato. Chunks of the tubers make excellent fishing bait; a fisherman can easily double his day's catch when using them.

Roundgold: This flower is a six-inch wide gold disk. It has no scent (much like a marigold), but for some reason tends to attract large amounts of bees, wasps, and other insects. It is very easily grown, and it blooms all through the spring and summer. Roundgold is often cultivated by beekeepers around their hives. Honey produced by bees that feed on Roundgold pollen is sweeter, less thick, and highly prized for its golden color and rich taste.

Salesheth: These trees are deciduous, hardwood trees that bear numerous large white flowers when the moon is nearly full and the season mild (late spring, summer, and early fall in temperate climates). The blossoms open only at night when the moon has risen and is at least 3/4 full. The flowers are very sweet smelling, and bear a mild intoxicant for those who hold them close to their noses and breathe deeply. Tea made from salesheth flowers is widely believed to be an aphrodisiac.

Shadowtop Trees: These trees are the soaring giants of the forests. They grow very rapidly (up to 2 feet a year) allowing some shadowtops to reach 90 feet or more in height. Trees of this size often have massive, pleat-ridged trunks flaring up to 20 feet in diameter at the base. The tree gets its name from the dense cluster of feather-like leaves which adorns its limbs. The leaves are copper-colored on the underside all year round, and a deep green on top. The tops of the leaves fade to match the underside in the fall. The branches sprout from only the upper 12 feet or so of the tree. The wood of the shadowtop is fibrous and tough, making it unsuitable for carving or structural work, as it has a tendency to split under stress into a mass of splayed fibers. The fibers are sometimes used in ropemaking. Shadowtop wood burns slowly but very cleanly, with little smoke.

Shepherd's Luck: The tree that this flower grows on has wide spreading boughs, and it tends to be solitary. Shepherd's luck flowers during the early spring and bears small brown fruit in the summer. The bloom smells somewhat like honeysuckle, but has a slightly more subtle smell. The fruit is small, wrinkled, and has a tough skin. However, the meat of it is sweet, juicy, and quite tasty.

Sandgod: This huge desert tree has a very bloated trunk and very small twisted limbs that curve and twist about as if protecting the main trunk by warding off blows. The leaves of this tree are brownish green shaped like long thin needles. Getting close enough to touch the trunk of this tree is difficult because of these thorny leaves. If one does manage to avoid painful pricks and touch the bark, that adventuresome soul will find that the shiny grey bark is very smooth, almost waxy.

The Sandgod stores a huge amount of water within its main trunk. If a Sand God is cut open, up to 25% of the tree’s mass of the tree’s mass can be obtained in water. This can be up to 250 gallons for some of the larger specimens. This water is obtained by pressing strips of the fleshy inner wood. The bark itself can be scraped to obtain its wax. This wax is then heated and strained to remove bits of bark and other impurities. Sandgod wax is extremely pure and has a high melting point. It is ideal for water proofing items such as tents, scroll cases, boxes, woven seams, etc.

Tangleweed: Tangleweed is a ground-hugging vine common in arid regions. It is known for its purple flowers and tough, nettled stalks. It grows quickly, and expands to fill the available area. A single plant can grow to cover an acre or more in a couple of months.  A hillside covered in tangleweed is very pretty to look at, but anyone walking through it has a 3 in 4 chance of picking up seed pods. This has caused tangleweed to appear in areas it is not native to. In those new areas, it is considered a true pest, as it strangles out native plants and quickly overruns gardens and forests.  The thickest vines, when dried, are woody and sometimes harvested as firewood.

Tentbough Tree: This soft-wooded tree is short but broad; it almost never grows higher than 20 feet tall, but its crown of leaves can get to be 50 feet in diameter. The trunk is thick and the boughs grow thickly, and stretch out almost horizontally, creating a thick canopy. Very little grows under this natural shade. Tentbough’s are welcomed as shelters during hot summers and rainstorms; the leaves are thick enough to cause dense shadow and will stop all but hurricane-strength rainfall. Tentbough trees usually grow in clumps of less than 10 individuals.

The tree produces a nut the size of a grapefruit that as a very hard shell. When pried open, the nut yields a sweet, marble-sized meat that is stringy but good-tasting. The nuts are usually harvested from the ground and left to dry in the sun before eating.  Tentbough wood splits into fibers when dried. It is useful for starting a fire, but not keeping one. Commonly, the fibers are made into rope.

Trollberry Bush: These low-lying scrub bushes grow in rocky places where few other plants can grow. They are named for their berries, which are large, wrinkled, and a mottled green-black in color. The berries are not poisonous, but they are very bitter. Folklore says such berries are a favorite food of trolls.  When burned, the trollberry produces a foul-smelling, oily black smoke.  In the late fall the leaves of the trollberry turn fiery red. The leaves are harvested in the late fall and used for decorative purposes in many winter festivals.

Velvetheart: This small red flower can be found from the Ravenswood to the badlands of Potamo. It prefers lightly shaded open fields and the banks of rivers as places to grow. Where it does grow, it grows in profusion, often taking over entire fields. It blooms in late spring and early summer. The flower is about the size of a man's thumb. Its odor is slight but sweet, and honeybees seem attracted to it.

This herb is often in great demand and occasionally claims exorbitant prices. Several religions have declared that this herb and its use are "unholy" and "immoral". Some have tried to outlaw it and work against those who make it available. Some nations have outlawed this herb. However, the demand for this herb is great enough that it can probably be obtained illegally anywhere.

Waxwood: Waxwood is a green, waxy wood often used for signal fires. It is also used in smokehouses. As it burns, it creates clouds of thick, black, billowy smoke that are both oily and choking. The trees are curved and marked by sparse branches. They have an upright, oval foliage shape. The wood is brittle and tends to succumb to rot easily. Its bark, however, is durable and resilient. Strong winds sometimes cause large or old waxwood to topple.

Ularimil:  This plant grows in the salty, flat areas of the Burning Lands.  A reddish grass, it forms a thin paste which repels insects of all kinds when mashed and mixed with water.  Although inedible and strongly acidic, the paste offers no ill-effects to the skin.

Zerse: These large petaled, yellow flowers are akin to sunflowers. The plant blooms all summer long, and in the fall a harvest of black and white seeds can be harvested. These seeds are often roasted and mixed with suet and sold during fall festivals as a snack. A number of chefs use zerse seeds in salads and other dishes.