Common Names
Sweet Fennel, Wild Fennel, Copper Fennel
About This Plant
Bronze Fennel and Green Leaf Fennel, commonly known as Sweet Fennel, are the wild cousins of the more commonly known garden variety bulb Fennel known as Florence Fennel or Finocchio. They differ from Florence Fennel in several ways. While the bulb variety is typically grown as an annual and a “vegetable”, Bronze Fennel and Green Leaf Fennel are grown as perennials and are commonly referred to as “herbs” since they lack the enlarged, flattened stem bases that form the bulbous vegetable of Florence Fennel.
Wild Fennel is a hardy herbaceous perennial in USDA Zones 5-11. In the lower zones, it can be Read More
aka Elf Dock (Danish), Elfwort, Scabwort, Olandswartzel (PA Dutch), Wild Sunflower, Horseheal, Horse Elder, Nurseheal, Velvetdok, Yellow Starwort, Marchalan (Welsh), Ailleann, or Creamh (Gaelic), Alant, Allicampane, Enula Campana, Aune
About This Plant
Elecampane (rhymes with champagne) is a large, four to five feet tall, sunflower-like perennial from the Asteraceae family that is hardy in USDA zones 3 to 7. It likes damp pastures and shady ground and grows in a wide range of climate types. It does best, however, in zones with mild summers and cold winters. It does not grow well in very hot and humid areas. Its tall stalks, pale green, downy foliage and bright yellow flowers with large seed Read More