Crop Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Peoria

110 days to harvest. * 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.

* All strawberries have a base haploid count of 7 chromosomes. It has been used to regulate the menstrual cycle. The dried leaves are a very pleasant tea substitute. The seed can take 4 weeks or more to germinate.

* This variety of seed will produce gourds common for making birdhouses.

It is an early bush zucchini that produces a high yield of straight dark green cylindrical fruit. * The fruits are loaded with vitamins and minerals yet low in calories! * This is an Heirloom favorite.

* Flax was extensively cultivated in ancient Ethiopia and ancient Egypt . In a prehistoric cave in the Republic of Georgia dyed flax fibers have been found that date to 34,000 BC .

* Chervil ( Anthriscus cerefolium ) is a delicate annual herb related to parsley . * Sometimes called garden chervil , it is used to season mild-flavoured dishes and is a constituent of the French herb mixture fines herbes .

The leaves are strongly flavoured and are used less often, either as a flavouring in soups and stews or as a dried herb. * Celery is used around the world as a vegetable for the crisp petiole (leaf stalk).

In the Mexican part of the Sonoran Desert, it is still being planted and irrigated for livestock grazing. The introduction was largely unsuccessful but the grass began to appear as a weed beside highways and in cleared fields or over-grazed land.

* 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 Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan .

In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu". * Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe .

Thick growing and winter hardy. Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay. * A low growing, persistent, perennial, cool season legume. It has been widely introduced worldwide as a pasture crop, and is now also common in most grassy areas...

The flowers are white, borne in fall. * Symphyotrichum lateriflorum is a herbaceous plant with alternate, simple leaves , on stiff, purplish stems.

* Switchgrass is one of the dominant species of the central North American tallgrass prairie and can be found in remnant prairies , in native grass pastures , and naturalized along roadsides.

Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World . * Sarracenia minor , also known as the Hooded pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia .

* Chervil ( Anthriscus cerefolium ) is a delicate annual herb related to parsley . * Sometimes called garden chervil , it is used to season mild-flavoured dishes and is a constituent of the French herb mixture fines herbes .

Thick growing and winter hardy. Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay. * A low growing, persistent, perennial, cool season legume. It has been widely introduced worldwide as a pasture crop, and is now also common in most grassy areas...

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

Plants flower the second year from seed, so the wait isn't too long. * Sky blue to deep blue flowers in April, native to Greece, forms tubers, self sows to form mass plantings. Well worth putting in a partial shade location.

This plant is used as fodder and forage , and it also used for erosion control or revegetation . * Poa palustris ( fowl bluegrass , fowl meadowgrass , swamp meadowgrass , woodland bluegrass ) is a species of grass native to Asia , Europe and Northern...

They also are harvested long before the beets so you get two crops instead of one! * Mineral Rich in: Calcium: 114mg; Phosphorus: 34mg; Iron: 3.1mg * A phytochemical compound, glycine betaine is found in the root.

* 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...

It includes cultivars of squash and pumpkin. Sow 2 or 3 seeds per pot and thin out to the best plant. * The ancestral species of the genus Cucurbita were present in the Americas before the arrival of humans.

Plants normally grow with one unbranched stem in the wild, but often produce multi-stemmed clumps in gardens. * Succeeds in ordinary garden soil but prefers a deep rich loam with plenty of leafmold and a sunny position.

* A hardy perennial with gray or blue-gray rather frilly leaves, extremely fragrant (although many dislike the pungent scent); woody base; causes dermatitis in some people, for dry sunny places; also used medicinally and as a condiment; inconspicuous...

* Plant forming huge clumps with white or grayish spherical flowers 2-3" across, in late summer; rough, thistley foliage, dark green, good for the back of a large border. * This is a glandular, woolly perennial which approaches a maximum height of two...

* Loosely tufted perennial, short lived bunchgrass. On moist, rich soils. * It is a perennial which grows between 30 and 120 cm (47 in), flowering from June until July. Thrives in deep rich soil, but also grows well on poorer sandy soils providing they...

The young plants can also be eaten as a slightly spicy tasting micro-green. It is never pithy and stays crunchy in the refrigerator. This variety was the All America Selection Winner in 1949.