Plants in the novels

The herbs Geralt can gather and use in The Witcher aren't unique to the game. Even in the first book translated to English, The Last Wish, there are mentions of numerous plants. In the short story "The Witcher", a couple are mentioned as ingredients of potions, but most of the mentions occur in the sixth part of the framing story, "The Voice of Reason".

Some of them can easily be matched with the ones in the game, but not nearly all of them. A good number of them are also plants found in the real world.


 * Arenaria : "shoots of arenaria strewn with berries as red as blood"
 * Banewart, possibly Deadly nightshade
 * Bitip : "Glass reservoirs full of gnarled rhizomes of the hallucinogenic bitip"
 * Celandine
 * Cryptocorine : "slender, dark-green cryptocorines"
 * Eyebright
 * Fastaim : "the meaty, thickly-veined leaves of fastaim"
 * Hawthorn, likely Hawthorn (Crataegus)
 * Hemp : "'A field of this size emits a strong aura against magic. Most spells will be useless here.'"
 * Hop: "'Those are hops - their pollen has the same effect.'"
 * Hornwort : "vats full of hornwort"
 * Liverwort : "tanks covered in a compact skin of liverwort, fodder for the parasitic giant oyster."
 * Measure-me-not : "the crimson-golden ovals of measure-me-nots"
 * Melilote : "stretches of star-leafed melilote"
 * Monk's hood
 * Monkshead
 * Mousetail orchid : "the tiger-striped petals of the mousetail orchid"
 * Pondblood moss : "pinnated pondblood moss huddled against stone blocks"
 * Puffhead : "compact balls of puffheads pouring out of huge flowerpots"
 * Raven's eye : "the glistening tubers of raven's eye"
 * Reachcluster : "reachcluster, an antidote to every known toxin and venom."
 * Sand-spurry flybush : "huge pinnated leaves of sand-spurry flybush"
 * Sawcut : "the dark arrows of sawcuts"
 * Scarix : "The modest yellow-grey brushes peering from chests deeply sunken into the ground revealed scarix, a root with powerful and universal medicinal qualities."
 * Sewant mushroom : "In the shady part of the grotto bulged caps of the sewant mushroom, grey as the stones in a field."
 * Spurge
 * Stramonium, one sort is known as the hallucinogenic "jimsonweed"
 * True-love
 * Turtle duckweed
 * Veratrum, interestingly also known as "false hellebore"


 * Nematode : "clusters of nematodes", these are usually tiny wormlike organisms and not plants