Our 2025 EFN seed catalogue is now live! Featuring over 130 new varieties and over 640 total varieties, sourced from over 50 different growers from across the country. Huge thanks to all of our growers, volunteers, and to our stellar seed-house team in Minnesota! Each of you make this work possible.

Baikal Skullcap

Baikal Skullcap

$3.75 Sale

Scutellaria baicalensis

Origin: East Asia

Improvement status: Cultivated wild material

Seeds per packet: ~35

BOTANICAL SAMPLE - NOT GERMINATION TESTED

Life cycle: Perennial

Baikal Skullcap is one of the 50 fundamental herbs of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The root is known as "Huang-qin", and it has been used for ailments from diarrhea to high blood pressure, chronic hepatitis to threatened miscarriage. It has anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory effects as well. The plant can be eaten as a vegetable when young, and the leaves are dried to make tea. It also happens to be a beautiful garden flower. It puts on a show starting in July for a couple months, and pollinators love it.

Our seed comes from EFN collaborator Andy Hahn in Colorado.

GROWING TIPS: You can sow directly outside in early spring if you prefer, with the eventual plant spacing of about a foot between plants. Or start seeds indoors and transplant outside after danger of last frost.

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