List of wort plants

This is an alphabetical listing of wort plants, meaning plants that employ the syllable wort in their English-language common names.

It was often used in the names of herbs and plants that had medicinal uses, the first part of the word denoting the complaint against which it might be specially efficacious.

By the middle of the 17th-century -wort was beginning to fade from everyday use.

[1] The Naturalist Newsletter states, "Wort derives from the Old English wyrt, which simply meant plant.

Wurtiz also evolved into the modern German word Wurzel, meaning root.