Herbaceous Plant Seeds For Sale In Lafayette

* Has long roots. * This has anti-cancer properties and can be used in conjunction with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. * This very important medicinal plant was first identified by Thunberg as Aristolochia longa Linnaeus.

Commonly known as Smooth Luffa and Egyptian Luffa , sometimes under the obsolete name Luffa cylindrica and frequently misspelt "Luffa aegyptica", it is cultivated and grown for its fruit.

* Try them as a fall crop by sowing seed in late summer. * They are quite frost tolerant and become even more flavorful after some frosty nights. * Vates Collards have dark green very tasty leaves with a mild cabbage like flavor.

It is native to East Asia (such as China , Korea , Japan , and East Siberia ) and bears big blue flowers, although varieties with white and pink flowers are in cultivation. * Platycodon grandiflorus is a species of perennial flowering plant of the family...

* It is found over much of Europe except northern Europe , Ireland , Great Britain , Holland and Poland. It blooms in spring. * Dwarf bush up to 40 cm, leaves alternate fine pointed, linear, and extended marginal hairs, stipules absent.

It grows best in cool weather so sow in early spring or in the fall. * American president Thomas Jefferson cultivated mache at his home, Monticello, in Virginia in the early 1800s.

* This bulb forming perennial produces short lived sword shaped leaves followed by flower spikes having huge umbels of fushia colored flowers at the top. * The flower heads are 8-12 inches in diameter and are very showy.

The leaves are lobed and crenate , 30 cm long. * Greater celandine has an erect habit, and may reach 30 to 120 cm high. Each has an elaiosome , which attracts ants to disperse the seeds ( myrmecochory ).

* Members of this genus are rarely if ever troubled by browsing deer or rabbits. 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...

* Soapwort's main medicinal use is as an expectorant. * Common Soapwort ( Saponaria officinalis ) is a vespertine flower , and a common perennial plant from the carnation family ( Caryophyllaceae ).

A very ornamental plant. * Liriope muscari is a species of low, herbaceous flowering plants from East Asia . Common names in English include lilyturf, big blue lilyturf, border grass, and monkey grass.

* The flowers are purple, borne in summer. * Astilbe chinensis is a herbaceous plant with alternate, pinnately compound leaves, on thin stems.

May be grown in moist soils in borders as long as soils do not dry out. * Mimulus ringens is a species of monkeyflower known by the common names Allegheny monkeyflower and square-stemmed monkeyflower.

* Many 3" nodding blue, red, purple, or white nodding flowers on a branching stem; forms basal rosette of 20" leaves; monocarpic--blooms and dies; native to eastern Himalayas, western China.

* The leaves can be used fresh or dried. The flowering shoots contain about 0.5% essential oil, this is used as a food flavouring. The leaves are harvested just before the plant comes into flower.

Tabacum is sensitive to temperature, air, ground humidity and the type of land. The dried leaves can also be used, they remain effective for 6 months after drying. * In their great first voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus and his expedition...

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...

They are therefore more difficult to grow in areas with hot summers and in such a region they appreciate some protection from the strongest sunlight. * Gentiana acaulis ( Stemless gentian ) is a small gentian native to central and southern Europe from...

They are therefore more difficult to grow in areas with hot summers and in such a region they appreciate some protection from the strongest sunlight. * Gentiana acaulis ( Stemless gentian ) is a small gentian native to central and southern Europe from...

* The leaves are ready for harvesting in about 8 weeks from sowing, the plant responds well to cut and come again harvesting. * It has a mild aromatic flavour that is suggestive of aniseed.

A very safe herb to use, it is suitable for the old and the young and especially useful when the patient is debilitated. A gently warming and tonic herb, it is especially effective in treating coughs, consumption, bronchitis and many other complaints...

* Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana south to New Mexico and west to Idaho and Arizona . * Aquilegia caerulea is the state flower of Colorado.

* Pale pink flowers. * These plants thrive best in shady areas and under protection of larger plants, and in all but the hottest and the driest conditions in the United States. * This late summer blooming Japanese anemone is a native of China that grows...

* Easily grown in a stony leafy soil in sun or shade. * Prefers a cool habitat and a well-drained humus rich soil. The plant blooms in summer to late autumn in reds, pinks, and whites; leaves, appearing after flowers, are often marked with silvery patches.

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

The stem is hard, smooth and straight, the leaves linear to lanceolate, 4 to 5 cm long and 3 to 4 mm wide. * Lilium pensylvanicum reaches a height of 30 cm to 70 cm and has a width up to 25 cm.

(Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Hubei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mong) all in China. * Native to forest margins, grassy slopes; 400--2700 m.