Lamb's Ear Seeds (Certified Organic)

Lamb’s Ear is one of the best foliage plants for the sunny garden! It is long-lived, evergreen, and is very low maintenance. Its woolly leaves are silvery-green, very showy, and soft to the touch, making it a particularly nice addition to children's gardens. The plant has two growth phases, one in which it spreads horizontally to form a cushy mat or groundcover, and the other when it flowers in handsome purple spikes. Lamb’s Ear makes a perfect companion plant for roses. Deer and rabbits leave it alone, and it thrives in many places most other plants refuse to inhabit: dry, shallow, and rocky soils; urban settings where air pollution is present; and drought-prone gardens.

Lamb’s Ear has a wide variety of uses. It has been used for centuries as a wound dressing on battlefields. The soft, fuzzy leaves absorb blood and helps it to clot a lot more quickly. It also contains antibacterial, antiseptic, and anti-inflammatory properties.

The tea of the fresh, undried leaves helps with fevers, diarrhea, sore mouth and throat, internal bleeding, and weaknesses of the liver and heart.

You can bruise the leaves so that the juices are released, and put them on bee stings or other insect bites to help reduce the swelling. The same effect can be seen when used for treating hemorrhoids, or for postpartum recovery.

Being soft and super absorbent, Lamb’s Ear leaves can be used in place of cotton or toilet paper. 

You can eat the leaves as well! Enjoy young, tender leaves fresh in a salad, or gently steamed as greens.

Michigan Seeds and Plants grown on our farm, Renegade Acres, in Howell, MI!

Certified Organic by Oregon Tilth.