Biennial Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In California

With its extreme temperatures and poor rocky soil, the area rates among the world's worst farmland, yet over the centuries, Maca learned to flourish under these conditions. After 260 to 280 days, it is formed to the harvestable hypocotyl.

* The Lesser Burdock , Arctium minus , is a biennial thistle , also known as Burweed, Louse-bur, Common Burdock, and Button-bur. * Native to Europe, naturalized in North America, tends to be very weedy.

* Generally grown as an annual to produce desired onions for eating. 110 days to harvest. To produce seed for future years the bulbs need to be left in place and mulched heavily over winter and allowed to grow until the second summer when they will produce...

* The popular old-fashioned flower; likes limey soil; native to Russia and China. Although the Sweet William is a perennial species, it is quite short-lived and degenerates after its second year.

The species name campestre means "of the fields". * Trifolium campestre , commonly known as Hop Trefoil and Low Hop Clover , is a species of clover native to Europe and western Asia , growing in most areas, but specifically thriving on dry, sandy grassland...

The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, 10–35 cm long and 5–12 cm broad, and are covered with gray-white pubescent and glandular hairs, imparting a woolly texture. It has a profound tonic effect upon a diseased heart, enabling the heart to beat...

* Greater Burdock is rather tall, reaching as much as 9 feet (2.7 m). The root is thought to be particularly good at helping to eliminate heavy metals from the body. It is used to treat conditions caused by an 'overload' of toxins, such as throat and...

* Marsh mallow is a very useful household medicinal herb. * A confection made from the root since ancient Egyptian time evolved into today's marshmallow treat. * The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Althaea...

When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root. * Tian Nan Xing has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years and is valued especially for its beneficial affect upon the chest.

* This plant is commonly seen along roadsides and in disturbed places in North America. It is considered a noxious weed in the state of Washington and seems to be tolerated most others.

* The seed is best sown as soon as it is ripe in a cold frame. * Iris domestica ( Blackberry lily , Leopard flower , Leopard lily ; syn. ) Kuntze , Iris chinensis Curtis , Ixia chinensis L.

It bears large elegant flowers of various colours: red, white, striped or blue. When the plant is bruised, this smell becomes more like fine balsam. * It is a popular garden plant both for its flowers and for its fragrance.

Silene chalcedonica ) is a flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae , native from central and eastern European Russia east to Kazakhstan , Mongolia and northwestern China . * Lychnis chalcedonica ( Burning Love , Dusky Salmon , Flower of Bristol...

Its effectiveness has never been reliably proven or disproven since controlled studies have not been carried out. * The plant is part of a North American formula called essiac which is a popular treatment for cancer.

The growing plant repels whitefly and can be grown near tomatoes to keep that crop free of the insect. The whole plant is harvested when in flower and distilled for its essential oil.The oil is used in perfumery, it is blended with sandalwood oil to produce...

They keep their blue color well after drying. * This is an excellent plant to use for cut flowers and dried flowers. * It is very cold hardy, coming from Siberia, and will also tolerate drought and saline conditions.

* Unusual perennials with 2" spherical blue flowers in mid to late summer; the plant itself is rather rough and thistly with dark green leaves; good for middle or back of border; wants full sun and good drainage; can be dried for winter arrangements.

It thrives well in heavy loam in England (Bowley, l.c.). According to Bowley (l.c. 176) it is disturbing that it is only known to be growing wild in the valley of Kashmir, for, with so limited a location there must be some anxiety that it might disappear...

* A perennial grass, to 3', with erect stems and leaves, very narrow; flowers and seedheads lax; native to Eurasia. * Stipa capillata is a perennial grass species in the family Poaceae , native to Europe and Asia .

Added to salads or used as a potherb. Older writers usually distinguished the turnip and rape by the adjectives round and long (- rooted ) respectively. * The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked.

* Plant forming huge clumps with white or grayish spherical flowers 2-3" across, in late summer; rough, thistley foliage, dark green, good for the back of a large border. * It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich soils,...

Plant out in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts, and give some protection from the cold for at least their first few winters. The fruits are capsules 1 to 3 centimeters long and containing black seed.

The plant is sometimes nicknamed "Molly the Witch", a humorous mispronunciation of the species name, which most non-Poles find difficult to pronounce. * It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing twenty-three to twenty-seven inches (60–70 cm) tall,...

Its dark green leaves can be used much like spinach, raw in salads or steamed. * Like other formerly foraged greens, corn salad has many nutrients, including three times as much vitamin C as lettuce, beta-carotene, B6, iron, and potassium.

Yellow to white flowers, 10–13 cm across, bloom from April to June. Paeonia wittmanniana filaments are red and up to 1 cm long and its anthers are yellow to orange. * Paeonia wittmanniana is up to 1.5 m tall.

* A fine yellow dye is obtained from the juice of the plant, it is very durable. It is a native of Europe. * Serratula tinctoria , commonly known as Saw-wort , is a species in the genus Serratula .

* Native to shrubby areas, meadows and stream banks from central Europe to Russia and China, solitary clematis is a woody-based, erect-stemmed, non-climbing clematis that typically grows in a dense, somewhat sprawling, shrubby mound to 12-18” tall.