Plants ordered today will begin shipping in May of 2024
Skullcap, Baikal (Scutellaria baicalensis) potted plant, organic
$8.50 – $21.95
Family: Mint (Lamiaceae)
Hardy to Zones 4 to 8
(Skullcap, Baical; Huang-qin, Scute Root) Herbaceous perennial to 18 inches. Native to the shores of Lake Baikal, Mongolia, Siberia, and the Chihli and Shantung provinces of China. The purple flowers are like schools of dolphin breaking through green waves in a summer sea. The part used in traditional Chinese medicine is the dried root. Traditional usage (TCM): antiallergic, diuretic, hypotensive, antibacterial, antiviral, tranquilizing and fever-reducing, commonly used for treatment of dysentery, hepatitis, staph. Source of flavones baicalin and wogonin. This is one of the best Chinese plants to grow organically in America. Not only is it a very striking bedding plant, bearing one of the nicest flowers available from this catalog, but there is on-going demand for the root, which attains harvestable size after only 2 years. Plant prefers sun and regular garden soils. It is extremely drought-tolerant. Space plants 2 feet apart.
Potted plant, Certified Organically Grown
Lynn (verified owner) –
I planted three small plants late last summer. They didn’t have enough time to get a great foothold, and I was worried that I had lost at least one of them over the winter. But all three are back and developing into nice, husky plants! Can’t wait to see the flowers, and use the roots after a couple more years. I’m in zone 5.5 in Pennsylvania, in a bit of a cool, very windy pocket in the highlands.
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