Hemp Corydalis Blend

Hemp is a dioecious herbaceous annual that typically grows 4 to 9 feet tall and is entirely covered in fine hairs.¹ It has an angular, erect stem that is branching.² From the stem, its digitate leaves can be either opposite or alternately positioned on long petioles with five to seven lanceolate serrated leaflets.^1,2 The axillary female inflorescences stand upright in either a raceme or spike structure.^1,2 The male flowers have five stamens with long anthers and the female flowers have two pistils with long stigmas.² The flowers are leafy at the base with brown glands covering the sepals.¹ The whitish to grayish glossy fruits are somewhat flattened and ovate-shaped that contain one seed.^1,2 Its seed coat is brown to olive-grey, while the inner part is green and oily with a slight scent.¹

Corydalis is a perennial, monoecious plant.⁴ Leaves are varied, ranging from long petiolate shape at the bottom to biternate with entire margins to deeply trifid leaflets.⁸ Stem is upright with scale leaves.⁸ Flowers are in a raceme formation, with 5 to 15 flowers with lanceolate bracts.⁸ Fruit is a linear capsule with 1 row of seeds.⁸ Root is a yellow rounded tuber.⁸

Turmeric is an herbaceous perennial that can grow up to 3 feet in height.⁵ The plant has leaves that are lance-shaped and sheathed to the short leaf stalk.^2,5 Its apical false flower is actually a modified leaf (bract) that is white to pink in color.⁵ Underneath are multiple funnel-shaped true flowers in a spike, surrounding the leaf stalk in a dense cylinder.^5,8 The petals are pale yellow to white in color with two fang-like appendages that point downward into the flower, resembling an open mouth showing top incisors.⁵ Each flower emerges from a tubular bract that is white, white with light green tips, or light green.⁵ Its arillate seed is an ellipse-shaped capsule with 3 cells.^5,8 The root is a main rhizome that is orange in the interior, oblong, and fleshy with small lateral roots.^2,5 It has short-branched knobby secondary rhizomes that grow outwards from the main rhizome.^2,5