Taraxacum officinale and is derived from the word "opificina", later "officina", meaning a workshop or pharmacy. The flowers are used to make dandelion wine, the greens are used in salads, the roots have been used to make a coffee substitute (when baked and ground into powder) and the plant was used by Native Americans as a food and medicine. Dandelions are harvested from the wild or grown on a small scale as a leaf vegetable. The leaves (called dandelion greens) can be eaten cooked or raw in various forms, such as in soup or salad. They are probably closest in character to
Prunella (plant) to treat a range of minor disorders. Self-heal can be grown from seed, or by dividing clumps in spring or autumn. Subspecies are In the Pacific Northwest, its juice was used by the Quinault and the Quileute on boils. They also used the whole plant to treat cuts and inflammations. Ointments can be made by fixing the plant with grease. Dried "Prunella" () is used to make a herbal drink. The mildly bitter leaves are also good as salad greens. "Prunella" species are used as food plants by the larvae of some "Lepidoptera" species including "Coleophora albitarsella". "Prunella vulgaris" is