General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Plant Height: 8-12 inch
Plant Spread: 10-12 inch
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Fruit: Showy
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Yellow
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Uses: Culinary Herb
Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Hummingbirds
Propagation: Seeds: Depth to plant seed: cover the seeds thin
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Pollinators: Bees

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Common names
  • Yellow Fennel Flower
  • Nigella
  • Nutmeg Flower

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Date: 2013-02-07
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2010-08-26
Location: Home garden
Date: 2012-05-31
Location: Home garden
Date: 2012-05-16 
Best when massed, flowers short lived, will self-sow here.

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