Red Rue

Description
A rare plant that blooms in only a few places in the United States; there was once a patch in Deepriver Forest, which was sold to Harrison H. Hart by Marvin Fleming in the 1960s. This patch was burnt down in the Deepriver Forest fire of 2006, and Hart was discovered to be growing the flower in his personal greenhouse before the estate burned down in December 2020.

Books gathered from the cult detail that Red Rue is very important to the Church of the Prophetists. H. H. Hart and Devin Walker did mass amounts of experimental drugs until they found one that they felt truly connected them to God. It's a tea brewed from bulbous canarygrass, an incredibly common plant and invasive species in some areas, including Wheldrake, and Red Rue, which is startlingly rare, though it just so happens Wheldrake had one of the last naturally-occuring patches. The books show specifically what parts of the canarygrass to use, because it can be quite toxic, but it gets the good DMT bits out of it.

The drug created with the Red Rue makes you, essentially, "trip balls." There are descriptions from Hart of travelling through time, how time is a bunch of concentric circles, and weird blurbs about string theory.