Glycyrrhiza yunnanensis
$12.00
Yunnan Licorice
Looking to embellish your winter garden? Love the natural look and adding plants with an herbal history and depth? This plant is for you.
Summertime brings upright cinnamon-colored stems with loosely arranged leaves and small lavender pea flower blooms. In fall a wondrous thing happens when the blooms change to showy bristly seedheads. The colors go from green to purple to a henna hue bringing seasonal winter interest to the garden. Fresh or dried flower arrangements go next level with these lovelies.
I have not tasted it for myself, but this member of the licorice family is reported that the root can be used for teas and sweets as well as having medicinal properties.
An easy-care plant that just needs well-drained soil. A member of the pea family it has the natural ability to improve the soil. Native to China’s Yunnan province.
Full-part sun. Height 4-5′. Spread 20″-2.5′. Drought tolerant. Hardy to Zone 6.
4.5″ pot