Bugleweed Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Bugleweed (Lycopus virginicus), the Virginia water horehound, is a perennial of the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to wet meadows, marsh edges, and streambanks across eastern North America from Quebec to Florida and west to Texas and Nebraska; it is unrelated to the European garden bugle, Ajuga. It grows 15 to 80 centimeters from a slender rhizome and tuber-like runners, with a square stem, opposite, coarsely toothed, lance-shaped leaves that are often tinged purple, and dense little whorls of tiny white four-lobed flowers tucked in the leaf axils from midsummer. Unlike most mints it has almost no scent and tastes bitter. We extract the dried leaf and flower.