Glycyrrhiza lepidota be sweet and were used as food and for medicinal purposes by Native Americans. After eating a roasted root in 1806, Meriwether Lewis described an "agreeable flavour not unlike the sweet pittaitoe." American licorice is not sweet from sugar but from glycyrrhizin. Glycyrrhizin may increase blood pressure (aka hypertension) by interfering with cortisol conversion. The Zuni people chew the root to keep the mouth sweet and moist. American licorice is grazed by cattle, but not preferred and will increase under grazing as competing plants are grazed off. The new growth can be toxic. It has light green to white flowers
Cyanea glabra Cyanea glabra Cyanea glabra is a rare species of flowering plant in the bellflower family known by the common name smooth cyanea. It is endemic to Maui, where there are twelve plants remaining in the wild. It was federally listed as an endangered species of the United States with nine other Maui Nui endemics in 1999. Like other "Cyanea" it is known as haha in Hawaiian. This Hawaiian lobelioid is a branching shrub that reaches an uncertain height. It grows in wet forests dominated by "Acacia koa" and/or "Metrosideros polymorpha" at . Associated plants include "Cheirodendron trigynum", "Tetraplasandra hawaiensis", "Xylosma