Thapsia garganica - Drias plant

Drias plant (Thapsia garganica) is a perennial herb of rocky slopes and fields across the Mediterranean, from Iberia to Turkey and North Africa. Its root yields a resin with a long history of medicinal use, but the plant is poisonous to livestock and the resin is strongly irritant to skin.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Hardiness zone 11¹
• Full sun¹
• Well drained soil¹
• Moist soil¹

Outputs

• Medicinal use¹

Type

• Herb
• Perennial¹

Footnotes

1. Thapsia garganica | Plants for a Future ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰