Succeeds in any deep moisture-retentive soil in sun or dappled shade. Plants are hardy to about -20°c. Well suited to naturalistic plantings in a woodland or wild garden. A sweetly aromatic plant.

Root - raw or cooked. Very sweet, aromatic and fleshy. A spicy flavor similar to anise, the roots are chewed, made into a tea or used as a flavoring. Leaves and young shoots - raw. An anise flavor, they are added to salads. The green seeds have an anise flavor and are used as a flavoring in salads, the dry seeds are added to cakes etc.

Seed - we have no information on this species but suggest sowing the seed in a cold frame as soon as it is ripe if this is possible, otherwise sow it in early spring. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in the greenhouse for their first winter. Plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts.

Rich, often alluvial woods and thickets. Woods, often along the sides of streams in Texas.