Horehound

Season: Perennial
Zones: 4 - 8
Height: 18 - 24 inches
Bloom Season: Mid Summer
Bloom Color: White
Environment: Full Sun, Moist but Well Drained
Did you eat horehound candy when you were a child? You may not have known it, but your parents were actually giving you "medicine"! Candy made from the herb horehound was often given as a cough drop to sooth deep chest coughs. Now, you can grow horehound and use it in your own soothing teas, or if you are adventerous, in your own homemade candy.

This woody perennial has hairy stems covered with 2-inch, toothed, downy, gray-green leaves. Small, off-white hairy flowers are born in summer on the 8-24 inch tall and wide plant.

Grow horehound in any well-drained, neutral to alkaline soil in full sun. Keep cutting back for new flushes of growth and extended harvests.