| Madia |
Madia elegans
(yellow/red spots) |
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Positive qualities: Precise thinking, disciplined focus and concentration
Patterns of imbalance: Easily distracted, inability to concentrate, splintered activity that is unproductive |
| Mallow |
Sidalcea glauscens
(pink-violet)
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Positive qualities: Warm and personable, open-hearted sharing, trust in social process
Patterns of imbalance: Insecure in relationships, paralysis in reaching out to others, resulting in social barriers |
| Manzanita |
Arctostaphylos viscida
(white-pink) |
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Positive qualities: Joyous embodiment, spiritual identity integrated with the physical body
Patterns of imbalance: Estranged from the earthly world; aversion or revulsion toward the body and physical world; eating and sleeping disorders |
| Mariposa Lily |
Calochortus leichtlinii
(white/yellow center/purple spots) |
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Positive qualities: Maternal consciousness, warm, feminine and nurturing; mother-child bonding, positive connection to mother and similar female figures
Patterns of imbalance: Alienated from mother or from mothering role, feelings of childhood abandonment or abuse; orphan state of consciousness |
| Milkweed |
Asclepias cordifolia
(red-purple) |
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Positive qualities: Healthy ego strength; independence and self-reliance
Patterns of imbalance: Neediness and emotional regression, dulling the consciousness through drugs, alcohol, overeating; creating dependency or sickness to receive attention |
| Morning Glory |
Ipomoea purpurea
(blue) |
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Positive qualities: Sparkling vital force, awake and refreshed; in touch with natural life rhythms
Patterns of imbalance: Dull, toxic, or “hung over,” inability to fully enter the body, especially in the morning; addictive or erratic living habits that deplete life force |
| Mountain Pennyroyal |
Monardella odoratissima
(violet)
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Positive qualities: Strength and clarity of thought, mental integrity and positivity
Patterns of imbalance: Unconscious absorption of negative programming, psychic contamination or possession |
| Mountain Pride |
Penstemon newberryi
(magenta)
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Positive qualities: Forthright masculine energy; warrior-like spirituality which confronts and transforms
Patterns of imbalance: Vacillation and withdrawal in the face of challenge; lack of assertiveness, inability to take a stand for one’s convictions |
| Mugwort |
Artemisia douglasiana
(yellow) |
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Positive qualities: Integration of psychic or dream experiences with daily life; flexible, multi-dimensional consciousness, warm and expansive soul qualities
Patterns of imbalance: Tendency to hysteria, fantasy or projection, overactive psychic life unable to distinguish or integrate trans-physical experiences |
| Mullein |
Verbascum thapsus
(yellow) |
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Positive qualities: Strong sense of inner conscience, truthfulness, uprightness
Patterns of imbalance: Inability to hear one’s inner voice; moral weakness and confusion, indecisiveness; lying or deception to oneself or others
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| Nasturtium |
Tropaeolum majus
(orange-red) |
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Positive qualities: Glowing vitality, radiant warmth; living thinking
Patterns of imbalance: Overly “dry” or intellectual consciousness; depletion of life-force and emotional verve from too much study |
| Nicotiana |
Nicotiana alata
(white) |
| (Flowering Tobacco) |
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Positive qualities: Inner peace centered in the heart and breath; physical and emotional well-being through harmonious connection with rhythmic pulsations in the Earth
Patterns of imbalance: Rigid or mechanized qualities in the body; blunted feelings, shallow breathing; over-use of hard-edge masculine forces
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| Oregon Grape |
Berberis aquifolium
(yellow) |
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Positive qualities: Loving inclusion of others, positive expectation of good will from others, ability to trust
Patterns of imbalance: Paranoid or defensive behavior; expectation of hostility from others; antagonistic projection
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| Penstemon |
Penstemon davidsonii
(violet-blue) |
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Positive qualities: Inner fortitude despite outer hardships; perseverance; ability to endure and forbear adversity
Patterns of imbalance: Feeling persecuted or sorry for oneself; inability to bear life’s difficult circumstances |
| Peppermint |
Mentha piperita
(violet) |
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Positive qualities: Mindful and wakeful clarity, warm metabolism balanced with cool head forces
Patterns of imbalance: Dull or sluggish, especially mental lethargy; under-active metabolism which depletes mental forces
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| Pink Monkeyflower |
Mimulus lewisii
(pink) |
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Positive qualities: Emotional transparency; courage to take emotional risks with others
Patterns of imbalance: Feelings of shame, guilt, or unworthiness; fear of exposure and rejection due to prior abuse or trauma |
| Pink Yarrow |
Achillea millefolium var. rubra
(pink-purple) |
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Positive qualities: Loving awareness of others within a field of self-contained consciousness; appropriate emotional boundaries
Patterns of imbalance: Unbalanced sympathetic forces, overly absorbent auric field, lack of emotional clarity, dysfunctional merging with others |
| Poison Oak |
Rhus diversiloba
(greenish-white) |
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Positive qualities: Positive vulnerability, ability to make contact with others through touch
Patterns of imbalance: Fear of intimate contact, protective of personal boundaries; reactive or rejecting in relationships |
| Pomegranate |
Punica granatum
(red) |
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Positive qualities: Joyful expression of feminine creativity, actively productive and nurturing at home or in the world
Patterns of imbalance: Ambivalent or confused about the focus of creativity, especially between values of career and home, creative and procreative, personal and global |
| Pretty Face |
Triteleia ixioides
(yellow, brown stripes) |
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Positive qualities: Radiant inner beauty; self-acceptance in relation to personal appearance despite handicaps or blemishes
Patterns of imbalance: Feeling ugly or rejected because of personal appearance; over-identified with physical appearance |
| Purple Monkeyflower |
Mimulus kelloggii
(purple) |
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Positive qualities: Love-based rather than fear-based spirituality, calm and clarity when experiencing spiritual phenomena; the courage to trust in one’s own spiritual experience or guidance
Patterns of imbalance: Fear of retribution or censure if one departs from religious conventions of family or community; apprehension or avoidance of threshold experiences due to fear-based beliefs or ritual abuse
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Quaking Grass
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Briza maxima
(green) |
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Positive qualities: Harmonious community consciousness, flexible and receptive in group work
Patterns of imbalance: Dysfunctional in group settings, inability to compromise, over-attachment to personal will and desire in social situations |
| Queen Anne's Lace |
Daucus carota
(white) |
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Positive qualities: Spiritual insight and vision; integration of psychic faculties with sexual and emotional aspects of Self
Patterns of imbalance: Projection or lack of objectivity in psychic awareness; distortion of psychic perception or physical eyesight due to sexual or emotional imbalances |
| Quince |
Chaenomeles speciosa
(red) |
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Positive qualities: Loving strength and firm loving; integration of masculine initiating power and feminine nurturing qualities
Patterns of imbalance: Inability to catalyze or reconcile strength and power with affection and tenderness; dysfunctional or inconsistent parenting or leadership behavior
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