Herbaceous Plant Seeds For Sale In New Jersey

* Although considered a "winter" squash, acorn squash belongs to the same species as all "summer" squashes (including zucchini and yellow crookneck squash). * As the name suggests, its shape resembles that of an acorn.

The seed usually germinates in 10 - 21 days at 18°c. Cool nights assist germination. * In the laboratory it is a model organism,[6] for example containing the gene DEFICIENS which provides the letter "D" in the acronym MADS-box for a family of genes...

* 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 , Kazakhstan , and Turkey .

* Machaeranthera tanacetifolia is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names tansyleaf tansyaster and Tahoka daisy . Plants often form clumps or mounds.

Other names include 'Yellow Gentian', 'Bitter Root', 'Bitterwort', 'Centiyane', and 'Genciana'. * Gentian root has a long history of use as a herbal bitter in the treatment of digestive disorders and is an ingredient of many proprietary medicines.

* 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. * The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use.

The plants are very cold tolerant, but they can be damaged when dormant if the soil is too moist. Grows well in heavy clay soils. Plant the roots out very shallowly. A very ornamental plant.

* A slender-stemmed, sometimes creeping, semi-woody perennial that may attain a length of 10-12 ft. The plant has been used as a head wash and to treat scabs and eczema. The nodding, blue to reddish-purple flowers are solitary on short branches from the...

* Lychnis chalcedonica ( Burning Love , Dusky Salmon , Flower of Bristol , Jerusalem Cross , Maltese Cross , Nonesuch ; syn. Silene chalcedonica ) is a flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae , native from central and eastern European Russia east...

Native to the Yangzhi River area of China and Japan. * This very important medicinal plant was first identified by Thunberg as Aristolochia longa Linnaeus. * Has long roots. * The root is anodyne and anti-inflammatory.

* Scabiosa ochroleuca, commonly called cream scabious, is a species of scabiosa with creamy yellow flower heads. It is native to Europe and western Asia.

* 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.

* This species is closely related to P. 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 flowers produce an abundnce of seed every year and your small planting will soon spread. Plants flower the second year from seed, so the wait isn't too long. * This is a great little flower that really livens up the spring garden.

* Sometimes called garden chervil , it is used to season mild-flavoured dishes and is a constituent of the French herb mixture fines herbes . * It has a mild aromatic flavour that is suggestive of aniseed.

Arctium lappa is the main species used, though this species has similar properties. * Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in both Chinese and Western herbal medicine. * The seed contains arctiin, this excites the central nervous system producing...

* These small round cucumbers ripen to a lemon yellow color.

* The leaves of fireweed are unique in that the leaf veins are circular and do not terminate on the edges of the leaf, but form circular loops and join together inside the outer leaf margins.

This species is also occasionally known as Felon Herb , Chrysanthemum Weed , Wild Wormwood , Old uncle Henry , Sailor's Tobacco , Naughty Man , Old Man or St. John's Plant (not to be confused with St John's wort ).

* This is a glandular, woolly perennial which approaches a maximum height of two metres.Its erect, branching gray stems bear the occasional sharply toothed, sharp-lobed pointed green leaf.

The main flowering stem is erect. * The plants flower from late spring to late summer, and are pollinated by butterflies and bumble bees. * The leaves are deeply lobed with 3 to 7 toothed, pointed lobes in a palmate shape.

* The seeds have been used as beads. A very bitter tea brewed from the roots is analgesic and is also used as a love potion. Give the plants some protection, such as a cloche, until they are growing away well.

It is great fresh in salads or steamed. It is an annual plant (rarely biennial ), which grows to a height of up to 30 cm. * Sow in early spring or early fall. It is native to central and southwestern Asia .

This bitterness can be reduced by blanching the shoots as they appear from the ground. The cooked young shoots, harvested when about 5cm long, have a flavour similar to green peas but with a slight bitterness.

* 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. The dried roasted roots are ground into apowder and are used for making coffee.

* 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.

It is an umbelliferous plant, in the same group as fennel, cow parsley, elder and giant hogweed. Umbelliferous plants are so named because of the umbrella-like arrangement of flowers they produce.