General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Fruit: Edible to birds
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Malodorous
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Underground structures: Taproot
Uses: Culinary Herb
Medicinal Herb
Cooked greens
Edible Parts: Leaves
Seeds or Nuts
Flowers
Eating Methods: Tea
Culinary Herb/Spice
Cooked
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Pollinators: Bumblebees
Wind
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Miscellaneous: Dioecious
Conservation status: Least Concern (LC)

Conservation status:
Conservation status: Least Concern
Image
Common names
  • Hemp
  • Marijuana

Photo Gallery
Location: Cultivation of industrial hemp for fiber and for grain in france
Photo courtesy of: Aleks
Uploaded by robertduval14
Location: Close-up of cluster of female cannabis plant
Date: 2007-10-20
Photo courtesy of: Bokske

Date: c. 1900
illustration from Robinson's 'The English Flower Garden', 1900
Location: Potohar, Pakistan.

United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Location: Cannabis male flowers
Date: 2005-03-18
Photo courtesy of: Banana patrol

Date: 2007-11-03
Photo courtesy of: Jorge Barrios

"Kohlers Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und kurz
Location: Wild marijuana plant growing near Islamabad, which you may see throughout the region of Afghanistan, Pakistan and northwest India. These wild plants grow everywhere you see weed plants but people do not use these plants as drugs.
Date: 2005-04-18
Photo courtesy of: Zantastik
Location: Cannabis plants are growing under sodium lighting
Photo courtesy of: Rotbuche
Location: Male hemp flowers
Photo courtesy of: Erik Fendersson

« Add a new plant to the database

« The Plants Database Front Page

Today's site banner is by mcash70 and is called "Lilacs"

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.