Biennial Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Durham

* The Lesser Burdock , Arctium minus , is a biennial thistle , also known as Burweed, Louse-bur, Common Burdock, and Button-bur. * Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in both Chinese and Western herbal medicine.

This species is cultivatedas a vegetable in China. Plants are not very cold-tolerant, but they can beoverwintered outdoors in areas where winter temperatures do not fall below about -5°c.

The seed is the part of the plant used medicinally. The spiny bracts on the flower head were eaten in the past like globe artichoke, and the stems (after peeling) can be soaked overnight to remove bitterness and then stewed.

Its Spanish and Quechua names include maca-maca, maino, ayak chichira, and ayak willku. In the 1990s, a quick expansion of cultivated land with maca was seen. Sweet and pleasantly flavoured.

The flowers have a strong clove-like scent. * The popular old-fashioned flower; likes limey soil; native to Russia and China. * Plants self-sow freely when grown in a suitable position.

It is common in Middle Eastern , European , and American cooking . It is also a good detoxifier, helping the body to get rid of toxins via the urine and therefore helping in the treatment of a wide range of diseases such as rheumatism.

* These are the sweet white onions famous raw on hamburgers and salads. 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 flowers and...

In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu". * Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe .

The inflated bladder like flowers are interesting. It is pollinated by evening flying insects and provides seed as food for finches in the winter. It is considered a noxious weed in the state of Washington and seems to be tolerated most others.

Golden-mane Coreopsis is native from the south Eastern and south central states of the USA. * Plants grow in sandy soils in open areas and are often found on disturbed ground. * The species range in the eastern part of the USA is increasing as plants...

It is native to Morocco , but it can be found elsewhere growing wild as an introduced species , such as California . * This is an annual herb growing erect to approach half a meter in maximum height, its stem with linear leaves 2 to 4 centimeters long.

* Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun. This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens. * Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese...

Integrifolia bears nodding, urn-shaped blue flowers in summer that are 1.5 inches wide. It is native to Europe and Asia; in the USA it grows best in American Horticultural Society zones 8 to 1.

* Melilotus officinalis, known as yellow sweet clover, yellow melilot, ribbed melilo and common melilot is a species of legume native to Eurasia and introduced in North America, Africa and Australia.

* It is a winter squash with distinctive longitudinal ridges and sweet, yellow-orange flesh. Roughly 85 days after germinating, acorn squash are ready to be harvested. * Although considered a "winter" squash, acorn squash belongs to the same species as...

* Corn salad was originally foraged by European peasants until Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie, royal gardener of King Louis XIV, introduced it to the world. * Valerianella locusta is a small dicot annual plant of the family Caprifoliaceae that is an edible...

Flowers are heart-shaped and 1–2 inches (3–5 cm) long, with pink outer petals and white inner petals , hanging in a horizontal raceme . Seeds with whitish elaiosomes are borne in long pods .The plant often goes dormant in summer after blooming.

* Trillium ovatum, the Western Wake Robin, Pacific Trillium, or Western White Trillium, is a member of the Trilliaceae family, or sometimes included within the Liliaceae or Melanthiaceae.

* A form with reddish-purple flowers, otherwise similar to the species, which see.

* Prefers a sandy soil. Hardy to at least -15°c. It is a perennial with grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single seeded berries on a spike in the fall.

With long flattened ± patent scales. China, Korea, Mongolia. Distribution: Widely distributed in Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey, Himalaya from Kashmir to Bhutan, W. 1:30, 1972, Conventry, Wild Flow.

* Angelica has a long folk-history of use as a medicinal herb, in particular for the treatment of digestive disorders and problems with blood circulation. A tea can be made from the leaves, seed or roots.

* 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 .

* It is hardy to zone 3 and is not frost tender. * A very ornamental plant, it is hardy to about -20°c. * Plants seem to be immune to the predations of rabbits. * Bergenia crassifolia is an evergreen Perennial growing to 0.3 m (1ft) by 0.8 m (2ft 7in).

Flowers are heart-shaped and 1–2 inches (3–5 cm) long, with pink outer petals and white inner petals , hanging in a horizontal raceme . Seeds with whitish elaiosomes are borne in long pods .The plant often goes dormant in summer after blooming.

The scientific name, Leontopodium , means " lion's paw" and is derived from the Greek words leon (lion) and podion (diminutive of pous , foot). The name comes from German edel (meaning noble ) and weiss (meaning white ).

* Rheum palmatum , known as Turkey rhubarb , Chinese rhubarb , ornamental rhubarb , and East Indian rhubarb , is a plant in the family Polygonaceae . The other herbs included in the formula are Arctium lappa, Ulmus rubra and Rumex acetosella.