Butterfly Attracting Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Illinois

* The familiar yarrow from which many garden cultivars have been derived; grows in very poor soil in full sun. * Yarrow has also been used as a food, and was very popular as a vegetable in the 17th century.

* The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed). This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico .

It can also be found growing abundantly in much of Latin America and the West Indies. It has very soft serrated leaves that can grow up to 4 inches wide. * Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever,...

* A decidious Shrub growing to 3 m (9ft) by 5 m (16ft). Numerous cultivars with flowers in shades of white, pink and red have been selected. It is hardy to zone 5 and is not frost tender.

* Plants can be grown as an informal (untrimmed) hedge, though they are also amenable to trimming. The cultivar 'Tallhedge (syn 'Columnaris') is very suitable for this purpose. * The cultivar 'Tallhedge' has been selected for hedging.

The leaves area safe and effective cathartic. Both are dried for later use. A poultice of the root has been used in treating sores. * Senna marilandica , or Maryland Wild Senna , is a flowering plant in the United States .

* A decidious Shrub growing to 3 m (9ft) by 5 m (16ft). Numerous cultivars with flowers in shades of white, pink and red have been selected. It is hardy to zone 5 and is not frost tender.

Common names include Rambling Senna (formerly "cassia"), Christmas Bush, Money Bush, and Yellow Candlewood. * Slender brown pods that may be 6 inches long follow the blooms of Winter Cassia.

Also effective as a shrubby ground cover for hard-to-grow areas such as dry rocky slopes and banks Toothed, broad-ovate, medium to dark green leaves (to 4" long) are gray and hairy below.

* Callicarpa dichotoma (common names, Purple Beautyberry or Early Amethyst ) is species of beautyberry . * The berries which are small drupes are purple. * Lavender flowers from June until August, followed by violet fruits in October; extremely attractive,...

* A species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae ,native to South China (which includes Hong Kong ) and southeastern Asia * Common names include Hong Kong Orchid Tree, and Hawaiian orchid tree.

This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green foliage. It is bound to be a subject of conversation in your garden. Grows 6-12'' tall and 6-9'' wide.

It can be fermented into 'Mescal', a very potent alcoholic drink. * Agave utahensis is a rosette-shaped agave having blue-green sharp-spiked leaves. Among the Navajo, the plant is used to make blankets.

Pungent and spicy. It is much cultivated as a culinary herb . A nutritional analysis is available. * Thymus vulgaris or Common Thyme is a low growing herbaceous plant, sometimes becoming somewhat woody.

* Plant forming huge clumps with white or grayish spherical flowers 2-3" across, in late summer; rough, thistley foliage, dark green, good for the back of a large border. * This is a glandular, woolly perennial which approaches a maximum height of two...

* Palestine Strawberry Clover was developed in Australia and is very tolerant of adverse conditions. * It can be slow to establish but it will hold up to grazing, high saline soils, wet soils and can take some shade.

* The pecan (pronounced /p??k??n/ , /p??kaen/ , or /?pi?kaen/ ), Carya illinoinensis or illinoensis , is a species of hickory , native to south-central North America , in Mexico from Coahuila south to Jalisco and Veracruz , in the United States from southern...

The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2-3 cm broad. Its main use in present day herbalism is for relieving the pain and inflammation of pleurisy. * Orange flowers in late summer; grows well in dry soil; native to eastern U.S

* Cercis occidentalis, the western redbud (syn. * The showy flowers are bright pink or magenta, and grow in clusters all over the shrub, making the plant very colorful and noticeable in the landscape.

The flowers attract bees , butterflies , and hummingbirds . The plant is desirable fodder when it grows in fields grazed by livestock . Yellow Trumpetbush is a ruderal species , readily colonizing disturbed, rocky, sandy , and cleared land and occasionally...

* Tolerant of constant cutting, this plant is often grown in lawns. * This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown.

Grows 9-12” tall even in poor soils and is heat tolerant. Great for cut flowers. Plant 10-12” apart in full sun. Perfect for container planting with its full, well-branched, green foliage.

* Pinus washoensis may be synonymous with P. * For now, this small-coned form of P. Ponderosa subsp. Ponderosa, as detailed on that page. * Many botanists believe that this is merely a southern outlier of the typical North Plateau race of ponderosa pine.

A yellow-orange dye is obtained from the flowers. * It is a low, creeping, woody shrub to about 1 m tall and 1–2 m wide but often smaller. It is indigenous to southeast Europe and southwest Asia .

Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. The leaves are long-stalked and uniquely divided into two leaflets about 1 1/2 inches long. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft.

Award winner! Black-eyed Susans have rich, golden yellow petals set off by bronze-black centers. Bloom: July-September. Drought tolerant, attracts butterflies and hummbingbirds, for a rain garden.

* Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer. It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant. * The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed).