The scary story of at-risk medicinal plants. Black Cohosh is an at-risk plant, commonly used in herbal management for menopause symptoms. Looking for a spooky story? There are medicinal plants that are over harvested to the point of being at-risk of extinction . For this reason, there are a handful of plants in "critical condition" I NEVER work with in my practice of herbal medicine, and other "at-risk" plants that I work with with less often. For the most part, a plant being