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St. Johns Wort v Chamomile

18 years ago

Greetings All:

I recently planted seeds from 2 different packages bough from Home Depot, which have come up looking exactly alike. The one was St. Johns Wort and the other is Chamomile. I wonder if anyone could tell me if this is likely that St. Johns Wort looks exactly Chamomile in it's early growth and visa versa. My gut tells me that something is wrong here.

Thanks

R'Lee

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Daisyduckworth
18 years ago
Smell it. Chamomile smells like apple-and-cloves.
fatamorgana2121
18 years ago
Many plants look alike in the first leaves that sprout. You need to look at the 2nd or 3rd sets of leaves the plants produce. Here are some pix for comparison:

St. John's Wort:
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/nursery-weeds/weedspeciespage/hypericum/Hypericum_perforatum.html

Chamomile (I *assumed* it was German Chamomile):
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Matricaria+chamomilla&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

FataMorgana
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herbalbetty
18 years ago
What fatamorgana says is right on. You have to look at the true leaves to see exactly which plant you have. There is a book, "Park's Success with Herbs", that was printed in the 70s and 80s, that has wonderful pictures of herb seedlings! When I was starting out growing things, it certainly helped me identify which was a seedling I wanted to keep and which wasn't.

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