SEED
LIST
ABBREVIATIONS
SOURCE:
All seeds collected by Joe Hollis and apprentices at Mountain
Gardens (MG), or other Gardens
(NC mtns. or piedmont), or from Naturally occuring plant
populations (most in western NC) - details on request
DESCRIPTIONS: annual,
biennial, perennial; herb,
(herbaceous - nonwoody), shrub,
tree, vine, grass,
evergreen, deciduous, Tender
- not hardy here (average annual minimum = 0 F), ss = self-sows
(at Mtn Gdns)
HABITAT: gdn = prefers
garden conditions (reasonably
full sun, good soil and moisture); other preferences as indicated. part
shade (shadier than light shade,
but less shady than woods.)
PART USED: leaf;
stem, stalk; flower, flowering;
bark; root; fruit;
herb; plant; seed;
young; shoots; wood;
USE: Edible
(includes plants used for beverages or seasoning); Medicine;
Fiber; Ornamental; Nitrogen
Fixer; Dye, ink, food coloring, etc.; Honey.
Insecticidal; Fragrance, incense, etc. (...)=minor
or obsolete uses. This information is offered as an aid to plant selection
and further research. Please do not ingest any plant without more specific
information (preparation, dosage, etc.)
NB!! (Warnings):
Weedy (excessive seedlings - at Mountain Gardens); Invasive,
spreading by rhizomes,runners, etc., Poisonous (in total,
or some part, or at some season, etc, - not a complete list); Thorns,
spines, prickles; Stings
This list will be revised and expanded as time permits. Suggestions for revisions are welcome.
COMPLETE
SEED LIST (pdf format)
Major sources for this information
are:
Cornucopia:
A Source Book of Edible Plants, Steven Facciola. Kampong Pub. 1870
Sunrise Dr., Vista, CA 92084
Peterson’s Field Guide to Medicinal Plants, Eastern & Central
North America
Hortus III
Oriental Materia Medica, Hong-yen Hsu, Oriental Healing Arts Inst.
Color Dictionary of Herbs & Herbalism, Malcolm Stuart, ed.
(orig. pub. as part of : -The Encyclopedia of Herbs and Herbalism)
the Herb Society of America Encyclopedia of Herbs & their Uses,
Deni Bown
Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, Michael Dirr
Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas, Radford, et al.
Dictionary of Economic Plants, J. C. Th. Uphof
Tanaka’s Cyclopedia of Edible Plants of the World
A New Compendium of Materia Medica (Pharmaceutical Botany and China
Medicinal Plants), Ling Yeou-ruenn, Science Press
Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America, Fernald, et al.
Seeds are $ 3.00 - 5.00/ packet, postpaid. See ordering for more details. Excepting a few large or rare seeds, packets will contain at least 25 seeds. Panax & Caulophyllum - pkt is 10 moist-stratified seed. (Hydrastis & Trillium also supplied moist stratified). Dioscorea (Shan Yao) - pkt is 15 bulblets. Fresh seed is important and will be supplied for Sanguinaria (ca. May 31), Tussilago (April-May), Myrrhis (Jul-Aug) - please include S.A.S.E. for this service.
Larger quantities are available of many spp, for growers or retailers, inquiries invited, as are your want list or request for medicinal herbs not listed here.
A
SALUTE TO WEEDS
It is no coincidence that many of our most useful species are ‘weeds.’
Emerson said that a weed is ‘a plant whose virtues have not yet
been discovered;’ but ‘a plant whose virtues have been forgotten’
would be more accurate. Weeds provide some of our most nutritious foods
and effective medicines, while remaining committed to their primary purpose:
to clothe the soil.
