Medicinal

Nodding Onion

Alium Cernuum

NATIVE member of the onion family with edible chive-like shoots. Pale lavender blossoms nod in attractive dangling clusters from 18" stems.  Will spread by seed and clusters.

Boneset

NATIVE medicinal plants grow to 30" with fuzzy flat-topped clusters of small white flowers.

Garden Sage

Familiar culinary and medicinal herb.  Leaves are widely used in stuffings, and with eggs, chicken, and pork.  Small purple flowers on 24" stalks.  

Lemon Balm

Medicinal and culinary herb with lemony flavored leaves. Bees love the small white flowers on stalks to 18".  

Greek Oregano

Popular culinary herb with highly aromatic foliage, growing to 18" with small white flowers much loved by bees.  

Licorice

Nitrogen fixing medicinal perennial to 5' tall, grown for long, pencil-thin roots of classic licorice flavor. Roots can grow 4' deep and send underground runners up to 25' from the mother plant.

Absinthe Wormwood

Very bitter medicinal with feathery silvery green foliage on a woody base, insignificant yellowish flowers in late summer. Forms a mostly erect clump 24"-36" tall, 12"-18" wide. 

Meadow Arnica

NATIVE anti-inflammatory and wound herb forms a lush carpet of foliage with bright yellow flowers 12"-18" tall. Harvest or deadhead blossoms to extend bloom season.

Wild Bergamot

NATIVE  tea herb with lavender flowers and light green foliage.  Attracts bees and butterflies.  42" tall with vigorous spreading growth habit. 

 

Chinese Milk Vetch

Chinese medicinal grows to 36" covered with small paired leaves. Inconspicuous pea-shaped flowers. The nitrogen-fixing roots are used as an immune enhancing adaptogen.

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