You’re working outside on a muggy August night. You become dinner for the neighborhood mosquitoes. Or you happen to mow over the top of a yellow jacket nest. Or you scrape your leg on a broken stick poking up through the undergrowth. But no worries; you just bend over and pick a leaf, chew it up and slap it on the sting, then get back to what you were doing… or taking care of that yellow jacket nest with some gasoline and a well-placed match…
What if I told you that you’ve probably spent your whole life unknowingly trampling on this leaf? If you live in the Northern hemisphere, you’d almost certainly recognize it by sight, if not by its common name: plantain. And no, not green bananas.
