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Common name
Scientific name
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Size
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Light
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Salt
tolerance
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Comments
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Dill ¨
Anethum
graveolens
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3-5’
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Full
sun
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None
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Erect,
freely branching, annual herb with fine, lacy, blue-green foliage.
Seeds produce “dill” herb. Flowers small, yellow, and borne in
large, rounded, umbrella-like clusters.
May bolt quickly to flowering during prolonged drought.
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Orach, French spinach
Atriplex
hortensis
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2-6’
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Full
sun
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Unknown
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Usually
grown for its tender, spinach-like leaves. Leaves can be green,
yellowish-green, red or purple. Sometimes grown as bedding plant.
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Caper bush
Capparis
spinosa
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2-5’
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Full
sun
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None
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Elegant
shrub often grown for its green capers—which are flower buds,
pickled and salted. When allowed to flower, produces large,
long-stemmed, pink or white flowers with long stamens. Leaves
nearly round. Canopy open.
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Coriander, cilantro ¨
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2-3’
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Full
sun
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None
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Fine,
feathery foliage source of cilantro. Dried seeds are coriander.
Small, white or pink flowers borne in flat-topped clusters.
Requires well-drained soil. Suffers during humid, rainy weather;
plant in fall or winter.
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Sweet basil ¨
Ocimum
basilicum
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12”
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Full
sun
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None
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Rosemary ¨
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3’
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Full
sun
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High
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Evergreen,
woody shrub with aromatic, needle-like leaves and gray, scaly
bark. Easy to propagate from cuttings. Widely used as herb or
nontraditional medicine. Upright forms perform best.
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Mexican tarragon
Tagetes
lucida
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18-30”
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Full
sun or partial shade
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Unknown
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Semi-woody,
bushy subshrub with many smooth, upright, unbranched stems. Yellow
flowers in late fall. Requires well-drained soil. Soothing,
aromatic herbal tea made from leaves. Also used in herbal
vinegars.
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