Henriette Kress

Who is Henriette Kress?

Henriette Kress, known as "cyberspace's herbal archivist" is a well-known Finnish herbalist who has developed one of the most encyclopedic noncommercial web sites on herbal medicine worldwide. It contains archives on several public and non public herbal forums, a photographic database of 8,000 botanical plant photos, and reprints of 20 major classic herbal works which had been largely lost to history. The reprints contain information on 4200 different plants, plus those not yet in the plant name database. The classic texts include major works like

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter's Eclectic Materia Medica

Finley Ellingwood's American Materia Medica