Skullcap Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora) is the blue or mad-dog skullcap, a slender perennial of the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to North America from Canada to Florida and California, where it grows in wet meadows, marshes and stream banks. It reaches 30 to 80 cm with square stems and opposite, oval, toothed leaves, and bears small blue to violet two-lipped flowers along one-sided racemes in the leaf axils. Each flower's calyx bears a raised ridge on top, likened to a helmet or a small cap, which gives the genus and the plant their names. We extract the dried herb.