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Anise (Pimpinella anisum)

Anise is an attractive, fine-textured herb grown for its licorice-scented leaves and delicately flavored seeds. The sweet tasting leaves are used in salads, with cooked vegetables, and as a garnish. Add the aromatic seeds to fruit salads and sauces, soups, and baked goods.

Anise Packet $2.00

Borage (Borago officinalis)

Borage is grown as a garden flower and for its useful leaves and blooms. The leaves have a mild cucumber taste and are used to flavor salads, pickles, cream cheese spreads and cold drinks. The delicate blue flowers are used as an attractive garnish. Borage is commonly planted in flower gardens and attract bees.

Borage Packet $2.00

Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)

Chives are easy-to-grow and make a colorful, useful addition to any garden. The slender grass-like leaves have a delicate onion flavor and are used for flavoring soups, stews, dips, and salads. Plant with flowers, vegetables, or other herbs; use as an deging or in pots-indoors or out.

Chives Packet $2.00

Sage (Salvia officinalis)

Sage is an easy-to-grow herb that produces attractive flowers and flavorful leaves that are pebbly textured and usually gray-green. Use leaves for stuffings, meat dishes, stews, chowders, and cheeses.

Sage Packet $2.00

Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)

Chervil produces fine, light green leaves that are very aromatic. Leaves are used to add their delicious, mild anise-like flavor to meat dishes, omelets, sauces, and salads, and are a classic ingredient in French cuisine.

Chervil Packet $2.00

Thyme (Thymus vulgaris)

Thyme is a popular herb that has tiny oval leaves with a flavor that mingles well with other herbs. Thyme leaves and sprigs are used for flavoring meats, stuffings, stews, soups and fish dishes. These plants are ideal as an edging, and in rock gardens and between stepping stones.

Thyme Packet $2.00

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)

Fennel is a graceful, attractive plant whose leaves and seeds have a delightful, licorice aroma. Use leaves in salads and fish dishes, and as a garnish. The seeds are used to flavor sauces, soups, and baked goods. Fennel plants add a light, airy touch to the garden, and combine well with flowers and other herbs.

Fennel Packet $2.00

Caraway (Carum carvi)

Caraway plants are easy-to-grow biennials that produce aromatic, finely divided leaves and licorice flavored seeds. Seeds are used to flavor baked goods, cheeses, soups, salads, and meats.

Caraway Packet $2.00

Oregano (Origanum vulgare)

Oregano is prized for its flavorful leaves, this herb is widely used in several Mediterranean cuisines as well as in many Mexican dishes. Use the leaves in salad dressings, meat loaf, stews, and other meat dishes.

Oregano Packet $2.00

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)

Rosemary is grown both for its attractive light blue flowers and its aromatic gray-green leaves. Rosemary grows as a year round landscape plant where winters are mild. Where winter temperatures drop into the teens, grow as a pot plant and bring indoors during cold months. Use sprigs to flavor meat dishes, olive oil, and vinegars.

Rosemary Packet $2.00

Summer Savory (Satureja hortensis)

Summer Savory is an easy-to-grow herb with attractive flowers and sweet, tangy-flavored leaves. Plants grow well in gardens and containers. The leaves are used in salads, soups, sauces, egg dishes, meats and vinegars.

Summer Savoery Packet $2.00

Mint (Mentha)

Mint is easy-to-grow and prized for its refreshingly flavored, cool-tasting leaves used in a variety of ways, both fresh and dried. Add to salads, vegetables, potato dishes, and fruit cocktails. Garnish iced drinks, melons and ice cream, and use as a basis for jelly.

Mint Packet $2.00

Tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus)

Tarragon is an herb known as Russian Tarragon and is prized for its mild flavored leaves. Plants are an attractive addition to garden beds and do well in pots and other containers. Use the leaves in salads, for flavoring vegetables, meat, fish and poultry dishes, and in vinegars.

Tarragon Packet $2.00

Lavender (Lavandula)

Lavender is one of the most popular herbs and is grown for both its pleasantly scented leaves and its colorful flowers. Plants are tender with small gray leaves and lavender-colored flower spikes. Use to perfume soaps, pillows, sachets, bath water, and in flower arrangements. Plant as a low hedge or edging.

Lavender Packet $2.00

Dill (Anethum graveolens)

Dill is one of the most popular herbs, and is attractive and very easy-to-grow. The uniquely flavored leaves are used in salads, dips, vinegars, and meat, fish and vegetable dishes. The seeds are an essential in many pickle recipes, and are used to flavor baked goods, cheeses, and vinegar.

Dill Packet $2.00

Catnip (Nepeta cataria)

Catnip is a durable, easy-to-grow perennial used mainly as a treat for cats. The aroma of the leaves, whether fresh or dried, makes cats kittenish and playful. Plants produce pale pink or white flower spikes. Plant in mixed flower and herb gardens, or in containers for growing indoors or out.

Catnip Packet $2.00

Alkali Sacaton (Sporobolu airoides)

Alkali Sacatone (Sporobolu airoides) is a tough perennial grass that grows in large bunches that are 2 to 3½ feet tall.  Alkali sacaton ranges from South Dakota to Washington, south to Missouri, Kansas, Texas, and Mexico. The culms of Alkali Sacaton are erect to spreading and range in height from 20” to 40”. Its blades are generally less than ⅛” wide and are flat, elongate and become involute.

Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata)

Lance Leaf Coreopsis

Lance Leaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata) is one of the most exciting and rewarding of all flowers.

This easy-to-grow perennial with lance-shaped leaves, bears strikingly handsome 2-2 1/2″  bright yellow flowers on long, 1-3″ stems. Plants are adaptable, and will grow in dry fields and hillsides as well as under wet conditions. Plants bloom abundantly throughout the summer and provide excellent cut flowers.

Lance Leaf Coreopsis Packet $2.00

Lemon Mint (Monaeda citriodora)

Lemon Mint

Lemon Mint (monaeda citriodora) is a long lived annual that produces beautiful, longlasting, and very large 2-3″ purple flowers on long 2-3″ stems. Plants are drought-resistant, preferring dry soil, but tolerating moist. Mass plantings provide spectacular beauty year after year. Dried Lemon Mint flowers has a beautiful citrus aroma, and hummingbirds and butterflies love this flower.

Select a sunny location for Lemon Mint and plant in well drained soil during early spring or fall (recommended in mild climates).

Lemon Mint Packet $2.00

Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnaris)

Mexican Hat

Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnaris) is one of the most loved wildflowers. Grows well throughout much of the continent under a variety of conditions. The neat, magnificently brilliant red-and-gold 2-4″ flowers are borne on stiff 1-3″ stems. Plants are easy-to-grow and very hardy.

Select sunny location and plant in well drained soil during early spring or fall (recommended in mild climates). For best results, loosen soil with rake or hoe.

Mexican Hat Packet $2.00

Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida columnifera)

Prairie Coneflower

Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida columnifera) is one of the most loved wildflowers. Grows well throughout much of the continent under a variety of conditions. The neat, magnificently brilliant yellow 2-4″ flowers are borne on stiff 1-3″ stems. Plants are easy-to-grow and very hardy.

Select sunny location and plant in well drained soil during early spring or fall (recommended in mild climates).

Prairie Coneflower Packet $2.00

Maximilian Sunflower (Helianthus maximilianii)

Maximilian Sunflower

Maximilian Sunflower (Helianthus maximilianii) is considered as one of the most beautiful fall blooming wildflowers. This perennial wildflower produces brilliant yellow blossoms on stiff stems reaching 4-6′. Attracts butterflies and migrating monarchs.

Select sunny location and plant in well drained soil during early spring or fall (recommended in mild climates). For best results, loosen soil with rake or hoe.

Maximillian Sunflower Packet $2.00

Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja indivisa)

Indian Paintbrush

Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja indivisa) is one of the most loved wildflowers. Plants bear red-orange leaf-like flowers and are spectacularly beautiful and easy-to-grow. Adopted to well drained areas in full sun.

Select sunny location and plant in well drained soil during fall or early spring. For best results, loosen soil with a rake or hoe.

Indian Paintbrush Packet $2.00

Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella)

Indian Blanket

Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella), the Oklahoma State Wildflower, is spectacularly beautiful and easy-to-grow. Plants bear large 2 1/2-4″/7-10 cm. blossoms in varying shades of yellow and red on slender stems 8-2″‘/20-61 cm. tall. Plants are drought and heat-resistant, making them an excellent source for beautiful cut flowers throughout the summer.

Indian Blanket Packet $2.00

Clasping Coneflower (Rudbeckia amplexicaulis)

Clasping Coneflower

Clasping Coneflower (Rudbeckia amplexicaulis) is a spectacular, beautiful and easy-to-grow flower. Plants bear large 2 1/2″ /7 cm. blossoms of yellow and red on slender stems 8-24″/20-61 cm. tall. Plant in areas with poor drainage.

Select a sunny location for the Clasping Coneflower and plant in moist soil during early spring (recommended in mild climates).

Clasping Coneflower Packet $2.00

California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)

California Poppy

California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is the worlds most popular wild flower as well the state flower of California. Plants grow well in a variety of climatic conditions and soil types. This tender perennial stands 12-18″/30-46 cm. tall, bearing brilliant orange 2-3″/5-8 cm. flowers with satiny petals and finely cut gray-green foliage. The profusely blooming plants are easy-to-grow and often re-seed themselves.

California Poppy Packet $2.00

Blue Flax (Linum lewisii)

Blue Flax

Blue Flax (Linum lewisii) is light blue , cup shaped flowers smother this durable perennial. Flowering peaks during early and mid-summer, with scattered blooms through early fall. Plants grow 18″ to 30″ (46-76 cm.) tall in a spreading, arching shape with a delicate, airy effect from the lacy gray foliage. Blend with wildflowers, in grassy areas, on dry slopes or other areas of poor soil.

Blue Flax Packet $2.00

Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)

Black-Eyed Susan

Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) is a sturdy, upright growing plant that produces a warm-toned daisy-like flowers all summer through to fall. Black-Eyed Susan’s long and strong stems make them an excellent cut-flower. You can combine them with other sun loving flowers in the mid to back section of your garden, or use them in more out-of-the-way areas or in sites with poor soils.

Black-Eyed Susan Packet $2.00

Baby Blue Eyes (Nemophila menziesii)

Baby Blue Eyes

Baby Blue-Eyes (Nemophila menziesii) is a hardy annual that produces masses of delicate, cup-shaped, sky-blue flowers with cheerful white centers. These seeds produce attractive, neat, plants with bright green mounds of tufted foliage. They are an excellent addition to any flower be, borders, or planted alojng walks or in wildflower meadows.

Baby Blue Eyes Packet $2.00

Lead Plant (Amorpha canescens)

Lead Plant

Lead Plant (Amorpha canescens) is a native perennial that grows between 1-3′ tall. It often has several stems growing from the base which may be simple or branched. The name Lead Plant comes from the dense covering of fine hairs around the calyx tube which gives an impression of the plant being covered in white lead.

Lead Plant is well adapted to grow in full sunlight on prairies and open woodlands. While it is capable of growing in a variety of soils it has a preference for soils with an average to dry moisture content. It will also do will in clays and loams and sandy, gravelly soil types.