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Skullcap Seeds | Scutellaria lateriflora

Skullcap Seeds | Scutellaria lateriflora

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This species of skullcap, often called Mad-dog skullcap or Blue skullcap, has a long history of being worked with to support the nervous system through sleeplessness, anxiety, and depression. 

Skullcap has been worked with on its own or blended with other (more flavorful) herbs to calm the mind, ease circling thoughts, and act as a tonic to the entire nervous system. 

As a North American native plant, blue skullcap prefers wetland areas, meadows, floodplains, shores, creek banks, marshes, swamps, and wet ditches in most states except for Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada. 

Skullcap is in the mint family and, like some of her relatives, can spread easily via rhizomes and seeds. 

Approximately 50 seeds, harvested for 2025.

Grown using only compost, water, & organic fertilizer, our plants are never treated or sprayed with anything at all. 

 

Lifecycle: Perennial

Zones: 6-9

Region: Native to North America

Actions: Nervine, antispasmodic, hypotensive, antioxidant

Parts used: Leaf, flower, & stem

Planting: Sow seeds outdoors in cool soils of fall or early spring, otherwise give 30 days moist refrigeration by mixing seeds with coir or sand in a plastic bag or glass jar stored in the fridge. Then, sow in warm soil 1/4" deep, as skullcap needs darkness to germinate. Flowers blue/purple to 3 feet tall.

Spacing: 12"

Location: Skullcap prefers fertile, moist soil, in full sun to part shade. 

Germination: 30 days

 

 

Our Seeds

The majority of our seeds offered are saved from our small medicinal plant farm right here in the Cascade foothills of Oregon's Willamette Valley.

Our plants are grown only with water, compost, & organic fertilizer. Never sprayed with herbicides, pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, or anything else. 

There are some seeds that we have not been able to harvest in abundance ourselves yet, so these are provided by a farm here in Oregon that is certified organic by the USDA and Oregon Tilth. 

Important

Always check with local authorities (such as your county extension) to see if non-native plants are invasive or noxious in your region.

Noxious plants are illegal to grow and cannot be shipped across state borders. Invasive species should never be intentionally planted, but should be harvested from the wild instead. 

They may hold medicinal value but they can destroy native ecosystems and habitats. There are likely less destructive alternatives with similar medicinal value that you can plant. 

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