Is it worthwhile actually trying to identify the plants in the VM?

[Anton]

This narrows the context of what is told on the respective page. First, for sure it will contain the name of that plant. Second, it will most probably contain recommendations on how to use that plant. Something like "mirabilis in reparatione visus", and so on. It is unlikely that the VMS would tell the stories about plants totally different from what is contained in many other books.