Heuchera L. Saxifragaceae. Cultivar 'Silver Scrolls'. Distribution: North America. named after Johann Heinrich von Heucher (1677-1747), professor of botany and medicine at Wittenburg University (1709), Germany, and later in Dresden. He was physician to King August II of Saxony. Founder of the botanic garden in Wittenburg and author of Novi proventus horti medici Academiae Vitembergensis (1711, about the botanic garden). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1729. Most cultivars are derived from H. americana. Neither Austin (2004), Milspaugh (1974) or Moerman (2009) record any uses by the Native Americans, but Henrietta’s Herbal website, quoting King's American Dispensatory (1898), says it is used to check diarrhoea, haemorrhage, skin ulcers, and as a pessary for vaginal discharge. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
