eyebright
eyebright
Euphrasia
Plant family
- others -
Cultivation Break
0 Years
Season Overview
Sowing
Harvest
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Details
Light requirement
Sunny
Water requirement
Dry
Soil
Light (sandy)
Nutrient requirement
Low
Light germinator
Germination temperature
5 - 15 °C (Degrees Celsius)
Plant distance
5 cm
Row spacing
15 cm
Seeding depth
0.1 cm
Instructions
Description
Eyebright is a small wild plant with fine white to light purple flowers. It is a traditional medicinal plant. It prefers to grow in meadows and pastures and tends to stay low.
Origin:
Weltweit (Nordhalbkugel)
Growing tips
Sow in a grassy area or meadow, eyebright is a semi-parasitic plant. Only press the seeds down lightly and do not fertilize. Cut dense, tall grass beforehand and rake out.
Companion Plants
Antagonistic Plants
Blueberry
Clover / Trefoil
Funk
Grasses - Bamboos
Grasses - Cottongrasses
Grasses - feather-bristled grasses, lamp-cleaning grasses
Grasses - Pampas grass
Grasses - reeds, cattails, bulrushes
Grasses - Sedges, Rushes
Hellebores
Ivy
Lemongrass
Make
Mosses
Sorrel
Stinging nettle
Succulents
Sweet woodruff / Sweetscented bedstraw
Thistles
Diseases
Septoria
Root Rot
Angular leaf spot of cucumber
Pests
Caterpillars
Aphids
Land snails
Voles
