I tried looking up both "Urtica nummulariifolia" and "Pilea nummulariifolia" in some of the larger herbal references I have and found nothing. But that is not surprising. There are thousands and thousands of medicinal plants worldwide. And each area in the world and each people with their own "materia medica," what they know and use for healing. There are many specific ethnobotanical references that the cover the specific herbal traditions of a particular people or area that include plants and herbal uses that don't make the more common herbal references. So just because I couldn't find a use for a specific plant doesn't mean that it isn't used. It might be from an herbal tradition that didn't make the references I used. That said, however, I would take a much safer approach. Herbs can have powerful actions and can have side-effects as well as interacting with other medications and/or health conditions. If you wish to pursue herbal treatments, please do. But do it in a safe manner. There are herbalists and Naturopaths closer to home that you can see, discuss your medical history, and work with for herbal treatments. There are many herbs used in asthma treatments that are well-known and commonly used by herbalists. And a very strong agreement from me that common names are useless! FataMorgana

I'm sooo glad someone IDed that bugger I have one just like him (maybe bigger) in my yard, watch like a hawk to make sure he is not in my way. when they (I have more one)are around I swear I feel them so I can usualy scare them away. Last week I was out potting Plants and I needed more Pots which were a little distance away from where I was working. I headed to the pots. Well I felt that there was one close by soooo I very carefully eye out as far as my eye could see, didn't see anything so I thought to self "she is in a bush somewhere so I'm not going to worry. Sooo I by now I'm at the pots. I take one step forward and all of a suddon this huge snake wraps around my leg and I just about died, nothing but blood curling scream comes out of my mouth as I doing the chicken dance and there are pots flying all over the. I know in my knower that some are not poisonous but I could still die of a heart attack. Try as I have I can't seem to not be terrified Of them. That lawn mower deal sounds realy great HEHEHE Hi Kara I went to your plant swap My plants are doing awesome! thanks sooo much for letting me come. Carmen

I returned home once last year to find a cat-damaged snake trembling on my driveway. I took it off and let it go and hope it recovered. I had about given up on still having any snakes left but found a baby under some newspaper mulch this spring.:') A friend has a pond and puts those ~18" cube stacking plastic crates with latticed open sides upside-down in the bottom of her pond to put pots on. The lattices allow smaller fish to go inside and escape predators, but maybe the fish eating the spawn could still get in. Something with small enough holes could protect the spawn, though. I decided you have to be a lover of wildlife to have a water feature, though, as they seem to pull in wildlife from all over. I mainly like to grow edible stuff, fruits and vegetables, so pass on the pond even though they are pretty and interesting in the garden.

That is rotten railroad tie in the above picture that they were under. I only saw the writhing garter snake's tail before I turned over the tie. I have rotten ties because I can't lift the sound ones. I am thinking of removing them from my yard because last time it was baby rats inside a different rotten tie. I am not good at estimating but maybe 3 feet. They weren't large snakes. I am hoping it will eat the small copperheads before they grow up. I think this is the same guy in March. You can compare his girth to the soaker hose which is what I thought he was before he moved.