Biennial Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Boise City

* It tolerates a wide range of soil types and will grow in full sun or partial shade. * It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or biennial but will self seed.

* Native to Europe, naturalized in North America, tends to be very weedy. * Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in both Chinese and Western herbal medicine. * The Lesser Burdock , Arctium minus , is a biennial thistle , also known as Burweed,...

Typically the first year of growth produces a mound of foliage and flowering occurs the second year, plants are normally biennials but a number of races can be short lived perennials .

The foliage forms a tight rosette at ground level in the first year. It is also used in allopathic medicine in the treatment of heart complaints. Purpurea is easily grown from seed or purchased as potted plants in the spring.

Side effects can include sweating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, tremors, rapid heartbeat, mental confusion, convulsions, hypothermia, coma, and possibly death. * Lobelia inflata has a long use as a medicinal plant, as an entheogenic, emetic, and a dermatological...

* Not known in a truly wild condition. Sativus) was formerly widely used in textile processing, providing a natural comb for cleaning, aligning and raising the nap on fabrics, particularly wool.

* The tops can also be eaten when young as greens or in soups. * They are excellent raw or cooked , having a mild sweet flavor. * This is a very easy to grow and rewarding vegetable.

* Seeds are started after all danger of frost is past and the soil is warm or within 3–4 weeks before the predicted last frost date in the area. * As the name suggests, its shape resembles that of an acorn.

* The tops can also be eaten when young as greens or in soups. * They are excellent raw or cooked , having a mild sweet flavor. * This is a very easy to grow and rewarding vegetable.

* 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.

* The common name of bugbane is in reference to the odoriferous insect repellant properties of this plant. The root is analgesic, antibacterial, antiviral, depurative, diaphoretic, diuretic, febrifuge, sedative, tonic.

Papaver croceum, P. * A perennial poppy with 2-3" pink, red, orange, greenish, or yellow fragrant flowers; most of the leaves are basal; native to Eurasia and to North America from the Arctic to Colorado.

* Large-flowered forms of the common garden snapdragon; usually grown as an annual but may overwinter in warmer areas. Cool nights assist germination. * The plants are pollinated by bumblebees , and the flowers close over the insects when they enter and...

It is a perennial with grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single seeded berries on a spike in the fall. Requires a sunny position. * Prefers a sandy soil.

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. * Milk thistle has also been known to be used as food.

It is slow to bolt as summer progresses so it can be grown later in the spring than many varieties. It has deep lobed green leaves that are very sweet and tender. It is ready to harvest in about 60 days from sowing and does well in cool weather in the...

It has large, alternating, cordiform leaves that have a long petiole and are pubescent on the underside. 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 root is boiled and eaten like salsify. * Oenothera biennis ( Common evening primrose or Evening star ) is a species of Oenothera native to eastern and central North America , from Newfoundland west to Alberta , southeast to Florida , and southwest...

* The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and as a result is becoming uncommon in the wild. * Use Ornamental: Showy, Ground cover Conspicuous Flowers: yes Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Pipevine swallowtail...

* The leaves contain 'stevioside', a substance that is 300 times sweeter than sucrose. * The leaves have a very sweet liquorice-like flavour. * Other reports say that they contain 'estevin' a substance that, weight for weight, is 150 times sweeter than...

* German camomile is a well known herbal remedy and is much used in the West. A few drops of oil in the bath or ointment is good for wounds or to sooth the skin. Dried Chamomile flowers make a sedative and delicious tea that is calming to the stomach...

* 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. * This species is closely related to P.

* It is found over much of Europe except northern Europe , Ireland , Great Britain , Holland and Poland. It blooms in spring. Flowers yellow, 1.5-2 cm in diameter, solitary in leaf axils and without forming inflorescence.

* 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...

* Penstemon grandiflorus is a perennial plant of the genus Penstemon. * A decoction of the leaves has been used in the treatment of chills and fevers. * A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of chest pains and stomach aches.

They have a flavour similar to mushrooms when sauteed. The light blue flowers are also used as a colouring in foods. Immature seeds are used in soups etc. Use the young pods before they mature for best flavor.

* A tuberous herb with vine like leaves. * The plant is dormant during the summer and grows during the cooler half of the year. * Prefers a cool habitat and a well-drained humus rich soil.