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Echinacea purpurea or Purple Coneflower -
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Evening Primrose "Ozark Sundrops" -
Chinese Leopard Flower or Blackberry Lilly -
Yellow Dotted Mint Monarda punctuata -
Dandelion with a pollinator friend
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Catnip
Nepeta cataria
An important nervine as well as a beautiful plant . Catnip is a great remedy for colds, fevers, and stressed nervous systems. Drought hardy and easy to...
Chinese Senna
Jue Ming zi Cassia tora
Safe and effective laxative. Also helps alleviate symptoms of liver inflammation, high blood pressure, headaches, and dizziness. Unusual foliage make it an...
Catnip Lemon
Nepeta citriodora
Has all the same medicinal qualities as regular catnip with a strong citrus flavor. Makes a soothing and tasty tea. Cats who are heavy catnip addicts...
Chinese Snake Gourd
Trichosanthes kirilowii
This perennial vine, native to southern China and Vietnam, regrows each year in early summer. The plant contains the anti-AIDS constituent trichosanthine....
Catnip, Fassens
Nepeta faasenii
Ornamental groundcover form of catnip with vibrant blue flowers that bloom for months. Silvery blue/gray foliage. Great border plant and for rockeries. Does...
Chinese Toon
Toona sinensis
Chinese Mahogany, Xiangchun. This tree is much revered in China for its beautiful wood, while the young shoots and leaves are a popular vegetable often...
Costmary
Tanacetum balsamita
Costmary, Herbe Sainte Marie, Alecost
Originally from the Caucuses region of the Eastern Mediterranean
Chinese Woad
Isatis tinctoria
Da Qing. Qiug Dai. Used in Chinese medicine as an antiseptic gargle and as an anti-inflammatory to irritated liver and spleen. The plant is considered...
Codonopsis (Dang shen)
Poor Man's Ginseng This vigorous climbing plant has unusual violet green bell shaped flowers. Will die down completely each winter and come back from the...
Celandine
Chelidonium majus
Wood Poppy This plant with its latex rich stems was traditionally used topically against warts and also as a penetrating alternative ingredient in hand and...
Celery Herb
Apium graveolens
This is the wilder form of celery used for the leaf and seed. Internally, it is used for osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout and inflammation of the...
Centaury, European
Centaurium umbellatum
Feverwort An excellent bitter much easier to grow than Yellow Gentianan with similar medicinal activity. Used when there is stomach or intestinal ulceratio...
Corsican mint
Mentha requienii
Carpet Mint I have been obsessed with this adorable, carpet-like groundcover for years. It can handle light foot traffic, has sweet light blue flowers in...
California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
Gold Poppy. This California wild flower with it's bright orange 2 inch wide cup shaped flowers, bloom above lacy blue-green foliage in the early spring....
Cuban Oregano
Plecanthrus amboinicus
Spanish Thyme, Indian Borage, Mexican Thyme. This fleshy, aromatic, plant originates from south eastern Africa, but has naturalized throughout the tropics....
Chicory
Cichorium intybus
Wild succory, wild chicory, coffee weed, blue sailors, blue dandelion, Italian dandelion, wild endive.This showy biennial is native to England and Ireland...
Culantro
Eryngium foetidum
Often called Mexican Coriander but actually a different plant . Culantro can take the heat and prefers well drained conditions. A little on the thorny side,...
Catnip, Japanese
Schizonepeta tenuifolia
Jing Jie. This annual aromatic herb, native to China and Japan reaches about 2 feet in height with long spikes of delicate, lavender colored blooms. The...
Cayenne
Capsicum frutescens
This type of pepper produces very long, thin, dark red fruit. These are ground to powder and used medicinally. Cayenne is used as an analgesic for sore and...
Chervil
Anthriscus cerefolium
Beaked parsley, garden chervil, French parsley Growing to 12 inches with finely textured fernlike leaves and clusters of tiny white edible flowers in flat...
