Being Tea Co uses two kinds of images, and labels which is which on every page.
Reference photographs
Real photographs of real plants, sourced from Wikimedia Commons and other open-licence archives, used where seeing the actual organism matters. Every one carries the photographer, the licence, and a link to the original file, both in its caption and in the table below. Where a licence requires share-alike terms, those terms carry to our cropped versions.
A reference photograph is still not an identification tool. Plants that look alike in photographs are routinely different species, and some lookalikes are dangerous. Never eat, brew, or apply a wild plant identified from a photograph, an app, a common name, or this website. See our herbal safety page.
How we choose and check them
- The species in the photograph must match the species the page is about — not merely share a common name.
- Photographer, licence, and species are confirmed on the source file page before use.
- Every image is looked at by a human before it goes live, and the caption describes what the photograph actually shows.
- Where a photograph shows the plant but not the specific part discussed, the caption says so.
Editorial images
Some images on this site are AI-generated editorial illustrations. They set a mood or illustrate a process; they do not document a specific tea, garden, maker, harvest, or plant. Each is captioned Editorial image—not a plant-identification reference. Our full policy is on the disclosures page.
Photograph credits
| Subject | Page | Photographer | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| German chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla) | page | Rob Hille | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Peppermint (Mentha × piperita) | page | Gilles Ayotte | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Common lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) | page | JLPC | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) | page | JLPC | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) | page | Marco Schmidt | CC BY-SA 2.5 | Commons |
| Woods’ rose hips (Rosa woodsii) | page | Dcrjsr | CC BY 3.0 | Commons |
| Common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) | page | George Chernilevsky | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) | page | kallerna | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Bog Labrador tea (Rhododendron groenlandicum) | page | Gilles Ayotte | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| White willow (Salix alba) | page | Wikimedia Commons user “Willow” | CC BY-SA 2.5 | Commons |
| Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) | page | NobbiP | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) | page | Alpsdake | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Highbush cranberry (Viburnum edule) | page | Dave Powell, USDA Forest Service | Public domain | Commons |
| Common juniper (Juniperus communis) | page | Gilles Ayotte | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) | page | Gilles Ayotte | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Canada goldenrod (Solidago canadensis) | page | Gilles Ayotte | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Common blue violet (Viola sororia) | page | Dalgial | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Red clover (Trifolium pratense) | page | Andreas Eichler | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Smooth sumac (Rhus glabra) | page | USFWS Mountain Prairie | Public domain | Commons |
| Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium) | page | Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) | page | 4028mdk09 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Red raspberry (Rubus idaeus) | page | d.wine | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) | page | AnRo0002 | CC0 1.0 | Commons |
| Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) | page | Diego Delso | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) | page | Winfried Bruenken (Amrum) | CC BY-SA 2.5 | Commons |
| Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) | page | Petruss | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus) | page | Mokkie | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Common thyme (Thymus vulgaris) | page | Stefan.lefnaer | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Cinnamon bark, southern Sri Lanka (Cinnamomum verum) | page | Ji-Elle | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) | page | Dinesh Valke | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Commons |
| Turmeric (Curcuma longa) | page | Simon A. Eugster | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) | page | Björn S… | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Commons |
| White spruce (Picea glauca) | page | NPS Photo / Robbie Hannawacker | Public domain | Commons |
| Apple (Malus domestica) | page | Gerd Peter | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Culinary sage (Salvia officinalis) | page | Pattedyr | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Ginger (Zingiber officinale) | page | Sanjay Acharya | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
Spotted a misattribution or a species we have labelled incorrectly? Tell us — we correct visibly and record what changed.
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