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:''For other uses of the term Yerba Buena see [[Yerba Buena (disambiguation)]].''
{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Yerba buena
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Lamiales]]
| familia = [[Lamiaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Satureja]]''
| species = '''''S. douglasii'''''
| binomial = ''Satureja douglasii''
| binomial_authority = ([[George Bentham|Benth.]]) [[Otto Kuntze|Kuntze]]
| synonyms = ''Micromeria chamissonis''<br/>''Satureja chamissonis''<br/>''Satureja douglasii''
}}
'''Yerba Buena''' (''Satureja douglasii'') is a sprawling aromatic herb of the western and northwestern [[United States]], western [[Canada]] and [[Alaska]] and Mexico.  Another local name for this plant is '''Oregon tea''', referring to its use as both a medicinal and refreshing tea in [[Oregon]].  Its name, an alternate form of ''hierba buena'', which means "good herb" was given it by the Spanish priests of California.  

What is now [[San Francisco, California]] was originally named Yerba Buena by its Spanish settlers in the [[18th century]] because of the abundance of the herb in the area.