Herbaceous Plant Seeds For Sale In Jacksonville

* 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. It is a readily available ornamental plant for the flower garden.

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

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

* The dried leaves can be ground and used as a sweetener or soaked in water and the liquid used in making preserves. * Other reports say that they contain 'estevin' a substance that, weight for weight, is 150 times sweeter than sugar.

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

* Yellow flowers of daisy form, to 4" across, from July to September; leaves to 2'; dried roots sometimes used medicinally; native to Europe and Asia, naturalized in the U.S. * Elecampane has a long history of use as a medicinal herb.

It is an annual or biennial herb growing one or more branching stems up to about 70 centimeters in maximum height. A.k.a. Aster tanacetifolia * Branched stems with fern-like leaves ending in flower heads with many bright purple, very narrow rays surrounding...

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

Flowers are followed by a fragile, plumed seedhead. * The seed floss makes an excellent tinder for starting fires, a spark from a flint will quickly ignite it. An infusion of the leaves alone, or the leaves and stems, has been used as a hair wash to prevent...

* Lobelia inflata has a long use as a medicinal plant, as an entheogenic, emetic, and a dermatological and respiratory aid. * It is still used medicinally in the present day; however, there are adverse effects that limit its use.

* Flora of Pakistan states: According to B. According to Bowley (l.c. 176) it is disturbing that it is only known to be growing wild in the valley of Kashmir, for, with so limited a location there must be some anxiety that it might disappear in the course...

* Prefers a cool habitat and a well-drained humus rich soil. * A tuberous herb with vine like leaves. * Easily grown in a stony leafy soil in sun or shade. Dormancy is shorter in cooler climates.

* The flower heads dry well and the plant will self seed if the flowers heads are left in the garden. * The flower heads are 8-12 inches in diameter and are very showy. * This bulb forming perennial produces short lived sword shaped leaves followed by...

It is still used in Mexico and Guatemala, with the seeds sometimes ground, while whole seed is used for nutritious drinks and as a food source. Global interest in chia seed as a food* is based on its high content of protein, ?-3 fatty-acids, and complex...

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

It bears large elegant flowers of various colours: red, white, striped or blue. * The whole plant contains a very aromatic essential oil, giving out a scent somewhat like lemon peel.

It is found only in cultivation, where it is the most commonly grown of all plants in the Nicotiana genus, and its leaves are commercially grown in many countries to be processed into tobacco.

* The Borlotti bean, also known as the Roman bean or romano bean (not to be confused with the Italian flat bean, a green bean also called "romano bean"), is a variety of cranberry bean bred in Italy to have a thicker skin.

It is native to Europe but is widespread in North America where it is considered a weed. * Silene vulgaris or Bladder Campion is a plant species of the genus Silene of the Pink Family ( Caryophyllaceae ).

* 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.

It is native to Europe and Asia; in the USA it grows best in American Horticultural Society zones 8 to 1. Integrifolia bears nodding, urn-shaped blue flowers in summer that are 1.5 inches wide.

* An attractive garden flower, blooms in May or June, 1 1/2" flowers, several per stem. * Plants can be grown on walls. Succeeds in dry soils and in poor soils. * Prefers a neutral to slightly alkaline soil in a sunny well-drained position.

* The leaves are very rich in vitamins and minerals, especially iron and the vitamins A and C. * A perennial weed, to most, with long curly leaves; develops a deep taproot; seed turns brown and remains conspicuous in winter; birdfood, native to Europe...

Like all the Sarraceniaceae, it is native to the New World . This conflicts with the hardiness rating of 7 (temperatures down to between -5 and -10°c) given in . Plants require continuously moist conditions in a loose compost of sphagnum peat, live sphagnum...

A mucilage from the seed coats is used as a fabric stiffener. The leaves contain mucilage, tannin and silic acid. * Plantago lanceolata is a species of genus Plantago known by the common names ribwort plantain, English plantain, buckhorn plantain, narrowleaf...

* The poisonous alkaloid 'colchicine' is extracted from this plant and used to alter the genetic make-up of plants in an attempt to find new, improved varieties. * The name "naked lady" comes from the fact that the flowers emerge from the ground long...

* Iris magnifica is a bulbous flowering plant in the genus Iris, native to the mountains of Central Asia. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions – growing to 60 centimetres (24 in) (less in poor soils), and producing pale lilac...