Salvia Divinorum in the beginning:

In the fall of 1962, somewhere in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, Albert Hofmann, the entheogenic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide's (LSD) discoverer, and the father of ethnomycology, Gordon Wasson, traveled by mule in this subtropical view, looking for one of its botanicals dreams. The goal of their expedition was a specimen of the Mint Family (Lamiaceae/Labiatae) used for centuries by Mazatec curanderas (shamans) to achieve healing hallucinations. From the specimens collected by Wasson and Hofmann, Linnaean taxonomists deemed this species theretofore unidentified and christened this plant-teacher SALVIA DIVINORUM, the Sage of the Diviners (or simply “the Divine Sage”). Before that, the Mazatec knew it as Ska Maria Pastora, the Virgin Shepherdess Leaves.