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.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary's Ask Oxford site, "A word with the suffix "-wort" is often very old. The Old English word was "wyrt", from Proto-Indo-European origins that connect it to "root". 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.
The "Naturalist Newsletter" states, ""Wort" derives from the Old English "wyrt", which simply meant "plant". The word goes back even further, to the common ancestor of English and German, to the Germanic "wurtiz". "Wurtiz" also evolved into the modern German word "Wurzel", meaning "root"."