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Plant Monographs List

Calendula

Calendula Officinalis

Calendula is a popular annual grown for its bright-yellow and deep orange blooms. Easy to grow from seed in pots, raised beds, and in garden beds. This continuous blooming daisy like annual is know for its culinary and medicine purposes.

Chamomile

Matricaria chamomilla

Chamomile is a flowering plant that is part of the Asteraceae family. There are 2 types of chamomile which are Roman chamomile and German chamomile. The flowers are small with white petals, long narrow leaves, and stems that grow upto 2 feet tall. This flowering plant is attractive to bees and butterflies. Chamomile has been around for thousands of year and has been known as an important medicinal herb in ancient Chine, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. For a small flowering herb it has many uses in teas, medicine, fabric dyes, and more. 

Echinacea

Echinacea spp.

Echinacea is a flowering plant that is native to North America and is part of the daisy family. Known for their spiny cone-shaped centers. This plant is often used in herbal remedies and dietary supplements. Echinacea flowers are usually, pink, purple, white, or red with dark green leaves. Perennial herb that is known to help boost the immune system. 

Feverfew

Tanacetum parthenium

Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium) is a perennial herb that is part of the daisy family. This short perennial blooms between July and October that gives off a strong and bitter odor. The flowers are samll daisy like blooms with small white petals and yellow centers similar to chamomile. This herb is traditionally used for a variety of medicinal purposes like migraine prevention, and antiseptic. Feverfew has been called the "medieval aspirin" or "aspirin of the 18th century".

Lavender

Lavandula angustifolia

Lavender is a perennial shrub that can grow up to 24 inches tall with woody branches and narrow grey-green leaves.  The oil that lavender's small, blue violet flowers is where the fragrant scent comes from. Lavender is used in many products from herbal medicine, teas, lotions, soaps, and as a flavoring.

Passionflower

Passiflora incarnata

Passionflower blooms have intricate, fringed petals and sepals witha purplish blue, pink, or white color upto 3 inches across. Leaves can be dark green and deeply lobed, or gray/silver green and 3 lobed. The fruit tends to be egg-shaped and up to 2 inches long and turn yellow when ripe. The stems have tendrils to help climb and attach to trellises and wires. Not only is this plant unique but it has medicinal uses and knwon as a calming herb.

Rose

Rosa Spp.

Roses are a woody flowering perennial that can be shrubs, climbers, or trailers. They have throny stems and glossy green leaves with toothed edges. Rose flowers come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. Many roses are fragrant and some varieties produce a berry-like fruit called hips. Roses have medicinal, and culinary uses but they are also know to for aromatherapy, skin care, and many other uses. 

Rosemary

Rosemarinus officinale

Rosemary is an evergreen shrub and perennial in some regions. Used traditionally as a culinary herb and valued for its fragrant foliage. Needle-like leaves, purplish-blue, and white flowers, stems are flexible but mature stems can become woody. Rosemary is also a member of the mint family.

Sage

Salvia officinalis

Sage is a short lived, aromatic, semi-woody perennial shrub that is native to the mediterranean. With oval leaves that are rough or wrinkled with a gray-greenish to a whitish green color. Sage has over 900 species worldwide, and is part of the mint family. Some varieties like ornament salvia and annual sages may not be edible their not poisonous but nothing you would want to add to your favorite soup. Sage plants are easy to grow and can thrive in a variety of conditons. This aromatic plant has a long history of medicinal and culinary uses, and offer several health benefits.

Yarrow

Achillea millefolium

Yarrow is a perennial plant with flat-topped or dome-shaped cluster of white flowers with fine feathery like leaves that can give a fern like appearance. Yarrow typically bloom from spring to fall and part of the aster family. This attractive plant can grow to about 3 feet tall. Yarrow is used in pollinator gardens because it attracts bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects. This common herb has a variety of uses such as medicinal uses for wound healing, fevers and colds, to culinary uses being added to soups and salads.

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