Crop Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Illinois

It is grown for its fleshy hypocotyl (a fused hypocotyl and taproot), which is used as a root vegetable and a medicinal herb. Its Spanish and Quechua names include maca-maca, maino, ayak chichira, and ayak willku.

* It is currently still one of the most popular varieties in the world! * Produces 20-25 lb. * Crimson Sweet is a heirloom variety that has been around a long time. Oval to round fruit with red sweet flesh and small seeds, maturing in 85 days.

Sow the seed as soon as the soil temperatures are bove 40 degrees F. It's flavor is mild and is great fresh, in salads or sandwiches. * It preferes cool growing temperatures and will tolerate some shade.

* Spinach ( Spinacia oleracea ) is an edible flowering plant in the family of Amaranthaceae . It is an annual plant (rarely biennial ), which grows to a height of up to 30 cm. It is great fresh in salads or steamed.

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...

* Generally grown as an annual to produce desired onions for eating. Great for slicing and fresh eating! * Also make very good fried onion rings and can be used in cooking where a mild onion flavor is desired.

It spreads very quickly and will often kill local native plants such as palo verdes by taking away nearby water. It is a deep-rooted grass, tolerates drought, and will grow at altitudes of up to 2,000 m (6,600 ft).

It is a nutritious and palatable forage grass for domestic and wild animals. Shade tolerant and sod forming. * Festuca rubra is a species of grass known by the common name red fescue .

In addition, the plant contains various antioxidants (in stem, leaf, and root tissues) that have potential long-term benefits for human health, although toxic (dioxin) properties have also been observed.

* Bouteloua curtipendula , commonly known as Sideoats Grama , is a perennial short prairie grass that is native throughout the temperate and tropical New World , from Canada south to Argentina .

Veitchii, differing mainly in only having one flower to a stem. * Paeonia anomala has an immense range of wild habitat, stretching from the Ural Mountains of Russia to the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia, then to the Mongolian Gobi Desert and the Tien...

* Wild celery has a long history of medicinal and food use. The leaves are pinnate to bipinnate with rhombic leaflets 3–6 cm long and 2–4 cm broad. The plant grows to 1 m tall.

* It has a mild aromatic flavour that is suggestive of aniseed. * Chervil ( Anthriscus cerefolium ) is a delicate annual herb related to parsley . * The leaves are ready for harvesting in about 8 weeks from sowing, the plant responds well to cut and come...

* For therapeutic purposes drink 1 cup of tea/day. 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.

Cool nights assist germination. * The plants are pollinated by bumblebees , and the flowers close over the insects when they enter and deposit pollen on their bodies. The seed usually germinates in 10 - 21 days at 18°c.

* Paeonia wittmanniana , also known as Wittmann's peony , is a perennial peony native to the southern Transcaucasian region, and is closely related to Paeonia mlokosewitschii . Its stamens are around 22 mm long.

* The French marigold ( Tagetes patula ) is a species in the daisy family ( Asteraceae ). About 35 kilos of oil can be extracted from 1 hectare of the plant (yielding 2,500 kilos of flowers and 25,000 kilos of herbage).

* 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 officinalis Marsh Mallow for irritation of mouth and throat...

* A strong fibre is obtained from the stems, it is used for making string, bags, paper etc. * Lavatera thuringiaca is a species of Lavatera native to eastern Europe and southwestern Asia , from southern Germany south to Italy , and east to southern Russia...

* Essential oil yielded by distillation is generally around 2-3% and anethole makes up 80-90% of this. * The plant is an ingredient of pot-pourri. * Anise , Pimpinella anisum, also called aniseed, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to...

* Spinach ( Spinacia oleracea ) is an edible flowering plant in the family of Amaranthaceae . It is an annual plant (rarely biennial ), which grows to a height of up to 30 cm. It is great fresh in salads or steamed.

* Dactylis glomerata , Orchard Grass , Cocksfoot or Cocksfoot Grass , is a common grass , native to Europe , Asia , and North Africa . * Having a deep root system, the plant is also useful for checking soil erosion.

* Prefers a humus-rich soil, succeeding in a moist border or by water. Grows well in heavy clay soils. * The species, from central Europe and Russia, has blue-purple, lavender, or white flowers, but there are dozens of cultivars, in a varied range of...

Lanceolata is used frequently in tisanes and other herbal remedies. Lanceolata contains phenylethanoids such as acteoside (verbascoside), cistanoside F, lavandulifolioside, plantamajoside and isoacteoside.

* Native to Eurasia and widely introduced elsewhere, this sod forming grass is useful as a forage and for erosion control. * Alopecurus arundinaceus ( Creeping meadow foxtail , Creeping foxtail ) is a rhizomatous perennial species in the Grass family...

The species is highly variable with respect to its pitchers, with plants in some localities reaching almost 1 metre in height, while in others, plants can be diminutive (such as the seldom seen 30 cm high dwarf form encountered at Garcon Point in Santa...

* This is considered a noxious weed in some areas. It is obtained from the flowers according to other reports. It has also been introduced and is now common in North America . * Linaria vulgaris ( Common Toadflax , Yellow Toadflax , or Butter-and-eggs...