Annual Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Alaska

* The dried leaves can be ground and used as a sweetener or soaked in water and the liquid used in making preserves. * The leaves have a very sweet liquorice-like flavour. * The leaves contain 'stevioside', a substance that is 300 times sweeter than sucrose.

* They are like the peppers that you buy in the store. * Blocky shape, excellent for stuffing with a sweet mild flavor. * This is a timeless classic. * California Wonder peppers are an open pollinated heirloom variety of sweet bell pepper.

These secretions are produced about 3 - 4 months after sowing. * Secretions from the roots of growing plants have an insecticidal effect on the soil, effective against nematodes and to some extent against keeled slugs.

* Large-flowered forms of the common garden snapdragon; usually grown as an annual but may overwinter in warmer areas. * In the laboratory it is a model organism,[6] for example containing the gene DEFICIENS which provides the letter "D" in the acronym...

It is a hardy plant that grows to zone 5, and in mild climates it is grown as a winter green. It grows best in cool weather so sow in early spring or in the fall. * Like other formerly foraged greens, corn salad has many nutrients, including three times...

A few drops of oil in the bath or ointment is good for wounds or to sooth the skin. In particular it is an excellent herb for treating various digestive disorders, nervous tension and irritability and is also used externally to treat skin problems.

* It is an important crop for subsistence farmers in Africa. * This species was in use as a food source in Central America as early as 4000 BC. They can also be sprouted and used in salads.

* Because western salsify is a widespread plant, it has a large number of alternative common names. Pratensis, but the bracts which show behind the flower head, a distinctive feature of salsifies, are longer and more noticeable.

* The plant is often cultivated for its showy flowers, and can sometimes be found outside its native range as an escape from cultivation. The plant can reach 5-6' tall and has rough 4" long lance-shaped leaves.

* 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 in flower from May to September. * Lolium multiflorum ( Italian ryegrass , annual ryegrass ) is a ryegrass native to temperate Europe , although the precise location of its origin is unknown.

* It has an extensive old-world distribution extending from North Africa through the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent to Malesia and Australasia . About 40 varieties are currently cultivated.

* It has an extensive old-world distribution extending from North Africa through the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent to Malesia and Australasia . About 40 varieties are currently cultivated.

Cultivated varieties include orange-red, pink, salmon, red, white, and scarlet, and include bi-colored varieties. Flower color and size is quite variable. The naturalized variety is typically tubular, bright red, about 1.25 in (3.2 cm) long.

* Excellent as a fresh cut flower and for dried arrangements. * Native to the Mediterranean region, statice (also commonly called notchleaf status) is noted for producing clusters of papery, funnel-shaped flowers in summer.

* 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. * Linaria maroccana is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family known by the common name Moroccan toadflax...

* For therapeutic purposes drink 1 cup of tea/day. The roots can be eaten raw or boiled and buttered or par-boiled and roasted. * Milk thistle has been grown as a medicinal plant in monastery gardens since ancient times.

It is an annual herbaceous plant, with a slender, glabrous, branched stem which is 20–30 cm tall and has a diameter of 3 to 5 cm. The cumin plant grows to 30–50 cm (0.98–1.64 ft) tall and is harvested by hand.

* Bidens cernua, commonly called called nodding beggarticks[4] or nodding bur-marigold, is an herbaceous plant native to North America. * The species name cernua is Latin for nodding.

Above the plant is glabrous and dark green; below it is lighter green, glaucescent , with white hairs especially crowded along the veins, and the lower leaves are biternate . * Paeonia wittmanniana is up to 1.5 m tall.

Requires a sunny position. * Seedlings grown from our seed will not be variegated as the plants are in some of the pictures above. Common names in English include lilyturf, big blue lilyturf, border grass, and monkey grass.

* 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...

* Gomphocarpus physocarpus, commonly known as balloonplant, balloon cotton-bush, bishop's balls, nailhead, or swan plant, is a species of milkweed. * The name "balloonplant" is an allusion to the swelling bladder-like follicles which are full of seeds.

* Sow seed early spring in a rich compost in a greenhouse, placing 2 - 3 seeds in each pot. It is used as a bitter tonic for alleviating stomach troubles, kidney ailments, rheumatism, chills, fevers etc.

* An easily grown plant, succeeding in ordinary garden soil, especially if it is rich in organic matter. * The leaves are cardiac, stimulant and tonic. They are often used in the treatment of certain heart complaints.

* Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever, coughs, womb prolapse and malaria. It has very soft serrated leaves that can grow up to 4 inches wide.

Conyzoides is prone to becoming a rampant environmental weed when grown outside of its natural range. * Ageratum conyzoides (billygoat-weed, chick weed, goatweed, whiteweed) is native to Tropical America, especially Brazil, and considered an invasive...