Biennial Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In West Covina

The dried root of one year old plants is the official herb, but the leaves and fruits can also be used. This plant is native to Europe, but is now widespread throughout most of the United States as a common weed.

The dried roasted roots are ground into apowder and are used for making coffee. * A teaspoon of crushed seeds has long been used as a form of natural birth control; its use for this purpose was first described by Hippocrates over 2,000 years ago.

* Celery is used in weight-loss diets, where it provides low-calorie dietary fibre bulk. The leaves are strongly flavoured and are used less often, either as a flavouring in soups and stews or as a dried herb.

* The tops can also be eaten when young as greens or in soups. * High in Vitamins! * The purple topped turnip root will reach 4-5 inches in diameter and matures in 40 to 60 days. * They are excellent raw or cooked , having a mild sweet flavor.

* This plant is commonly seen along roadsides and in disturbed places in North America. It is pollinated by evening flying insects and provides seed as food for finches in the winter.

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

It has a longhistory of use as a herbal medicine, though it is very poisonous and should be used with extreme caution. * The use of this plant is subject to legal restrictions in some countries.

The tree is up to 14 m (46 ft) tall and wide and bushy when cultivated. The underside of each leaf has two broad yellow stripes and is densely covered with minute projections. It is commonly called the Chinese yew, though this term also refers to Taxus...

* The root is diaphoretic, diuretic and stomachic. It is water soluble. The dried flower heads were attached to spindles, wheels, or cylinders, sometimes called teasel frames, to raise the nap on fabrics (that is, to tease the fibres).

* Marsh mallow is a very useful household medicinal herb. * The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Althaea officinalis Marsh Mallow for irritation of mouth and throat and associated dry cough/bronchitis .

Leaves alternate on the stem and possess three leaflets. * Yellow flowers bloom in spring and summer and produce fruit in pods typically containing one seed. * Melilot, used either externally or internally, can help treat varicose veins and haemorrhoids...

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

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

* In their great first voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus and his expedition were introduced to a plant whose smoke was called tobacco by the natives of Hispaniola. It is found only in cultivation, where it is the most commonly grown of all...

The species is considered to be long lived. It makes a valuable fuel and is occasionally used in the manufacture of small articles for domestic and industrial use. * Cercocarpus montanus is a species of shrub or small tree in the family Rosaceae known...

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

They should be harvested in the spring before the plant comes into flower. The fresh or dried leaves are used as a tea substitute. It is native throughout the cooler regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe , northern Asia , and northern North America...

The dried root of one year old plants is the official herb, but the leaves and fruits can also be used. It is used to treat conditions caused by an 'overload' of toxins, such as throat and other infections, boils, rashes and other skin problems.

* The foxglove is a widely used herbal medicine with a recognised stimulatory effect upon the heart. It is also used in allopathic medicine in the treatment of heart complaints. * The much-loved foxglove of cottage gardens; flowers usually purple, but...

* Plants self-sow freely when grown in a suitable position. Although the Sweet William is a perennial species, it is quite short-lived and degenerates after its second year. * Dianthus barbatus ( Sweet William ) is a species of Dianthus native to the...

* The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and as a result is becoming uncommon in the wild. It is used in a number of proprietary medicines for treating skin, circulatory and kidney disorders.

Lobata, commonly called wild cucumber, prickly cucumber, or balsam apple. A climbing plant, supporting itself by means of tendrils. Succeeds in ordinary garden soil. * Sow seed early spring in a rich compost in a greenhouse, placing 2 - 3 seeds in each...

Wood - fine-grained, hard to soft, heavy. It bears the alternate common names California fremontia and flannel flower . It is one of two species in the genus Fremontodendron , and it is divided into four subspecies.

* A perennial weed, to most, with long curly leaves; develops a deep taproot; seed turns brown and remains conspicuous in winter; birdfood, native to Europe and Asia and common in North America.

* Birthwort has a very long history of medicinal use, though it has been little researched scientifically and is little used by present-day herbalists. It is an aromatic tonic herb that stimulates the uterus, reduces inflammation, controls bacterial infections...

It has thin scaly brown bark. * It is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree, growing 10-15 m tall and with a trunk up to 50 cm diameter, rarely more. * Modern research has shown that it contains the substance 'taxol' in its shoots and bark.

* The leaves and flower heads contain an analgesic agent spilanthol used to numb toothache. * I just watched a You Tube video of a woman eating 1/4 of a flower. * These curiosities are well worth growing, if only for the conversation factor! * The buds...