Medicinal Plant Seeds For Sale In District Of Columbia

Use with caution, internal consumption can cause damage to the kidneys and uterine bleeding. * The plant should not be used internally without experienced supervision, externally it is used in the treatment of slow-healing cuts, eczema, infected toe and...

* A poultice of the pounded, dampened leaves has been applied to the feet to treat sweaty feet. * Purple or blue solitary flowers; native to northwest U.S. and Canada. An infusion of the leaves alone, or the leaves and stems, has been used as a hair wash...

* Lobelia inflata has a long use as a medicinal plant, as an entheogenic, emetic, and a dermatological and respiratory aid. The seed usually germinates within 2 weeks. * The foliage was burned by the Cherokee as a natural insecticide, to smoke out gnats.

* It can grow in very alkaline soils, but not in the shade. * The barkcontains aesculin, this has anti-inflammatory, anticoagulant and analgesic actions. * A small ash native to China with 1 1/2" leaflets on compound leaves and 1" seeds.

The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern Ontario it occurs farther north than the alternateleaf dogwood, but does not extend past 50°N (Soper and Heimburger...

* This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. * In Europe growth is most successful in the Mediterranean region with notable specimens in northern Italy; further north in the United Kingdom it will grow, but only very...

* Magnolia biondii is widely distributed in China. It is usually found in forests in the mountains. * Magnolia biondii is closely related to the Japanese Willow-Leaf Magnolia, Magnolia salicifolia, which has aromatic foliage and shoots.

* This plant is an anti-infective herb that lowers fevers and reduces pain. The root is analgesic, antibacterial, antiviral, depurative, diaphoretic, diuretic, febrifuge, sedative, tonic.

* It has gained an almost magical reputation for being able to promote health, general body vigour and also to prolong life. * The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Panax ginseng for lack of stamina.

* Ephedra nevadensis ( Nevada ephedra ) is a species of Ephedra native to dry areas of western North America. * The stems of most members of this genus contain the alkaloid ephedrine and are valuable in the treatment of asthma and many other complaints...

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.

* An easily grown plant, succeeding in ordinary garden soil, especially if it is rich in organic matter. * The leaves are cardiac, stimulant and tonic. * Yellowish flowers marked with rusty red, particularly on the inside; in spikes; biennial or short-lived...

* An edible oil is extracted from the seed. * 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.

Most species will grow well in the rock garden. They are therefore more difficult to grow in areas with hot summers and in such a region they appreciate some protection from the strongest sunlight.

* A poultice of the pounded, dampened leaves has been applied to the feet to treat sweaty feet. * Purple or blue solitary flowers; native to northwest U.S. and Canada. An infusion of the leaves alone, or the leaves and stems, has been used as a hair wash...

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 .

Plants are best spaced about 90cm apart each way. Although it is clump forming rather than spreading it increases freely by self-sowing. * A good ground cover plant. * Hypericum androsaemum , commonly known as tutsan , is a plant in the genus Hypericum...

* The plant self-sows freely and should not need much encouragement. Each has an elaiosome , which attracts ants to disperse the seeds ( myrmecochory ). * The flowers appear from late spring to summer in umbelliform cymes of about 4 flowers.The seeds...

Synonyms are: Chamomilla chamomilla , Chamomilla recutita (correct name according to the Flora Europaea ), Matricaria chamomilla , and Matricaria suaveolens . Dried Chamomile flowers make a sedative and delicious tea that is calming to the stomach and...

It has a tropical appearance with exfoliating bark reminiscent of Eucalyptus. * Habitats: Sunny wild uplands. * Antiphlogistic. * Dalbergia hupeana is a TREE growing to 15 m (49ft 3in).

* Trees to 40 m tall and 150 cm dbh with a straight, round trunk and broadly conical crown. * Shoots with a dense, rust-colored pubescence; leaves 1.5-3 cm long with slightly revolute margins; cone bracts exserted, broad and tapering to a short cusp.

* The species, from central Europe and Russia, has blue-purple, lavender, or white flowers, but there are dozens of cultivars, in a varied range of splendid blues, purples, pinks, and whites, including some of the most striking and elegant of all iris;...

It is an annual, but otherwise is similar in use and flavor to the perennial Winter savory . * The leaves can be used fresh or dried. The flowering shoots contain about 0.5% essential oil, this is used as a food flavouring.

* Flaring tubular white flowers in late summer followed by striking bright blue berries in a reddish calyx; usually a shrub but can be trained as a tree. The fragrant flowers are borne on branching peduncles.

* I just watched a You Tube video of a woman eating 1/4 of a flower. She describes it as "like popping candy" and "little needles poking the top of your mouth". * The leaves and flower heads contain an analgesic agent spilanthol used to numb toothache.

Genista juncea ), also known as Weaver's Broom , is a perennial, leguminous shrub native to the Mediterranean region in southern Europe , southwest Asia and northwest Africa , where it is found in sunny sites, usually on dry, sandy soils.

Lanceolata has been found in western Norway from the Early Neolithic onwards. * Plantago lanceolata is a species of genus Plantago known by the common names ribwort plantain, English plantain, buckhorn plantain, narrowleaf plantain, ribleaf and lamb's...