Butterfly Attracting Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Mckinney

* So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine.

* Nettles have a long history of use in the home as a herbal remedy and nutritious addition to the diet. * Nettles are the exclusive larval food plant for several species of butterflies, such as the peacock butterfly or the small tortoiseshell, and are...

It is native to Europe and western Asia. * Scabiosa ochroleuca, commonly called cream scabious, is a species of scabiosa with creamy yellow flower heads.

* Asclepias tuberosa is a species of milkweed native to eastern North America . It is a perennial plant growing to 0.6-2 m (1 -2 feet) tall, with clustered orange or yellow flowers from early summer to early fall.

Its compact size of only 6' tall makes it perfect for a hedge or specimen planting. Josee can rebloom up to four times in a season with the most spectacular show in late spring. Attracts butterflies, fragrant, deer resistant, good for cutting.

* It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico . * A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads.

Rose of Sharon grows 5-10' tall. An excellent source for cut flowers. Extremely hardy, they thrive in any garden with little care. Profusion of blooms from June through September. You'll enjoy this old-fashioned favorite that bears an abundance of large,...

It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States. * It was believed by some native North American Indian tribes that if the finely ground roots were secretly added to the food of an arguing couple then this would...

It is commonly grown in gardens for its showy purple flowers (pink or white in some cultivars). All spikes of purple flowers appear in July and August. Native to moist prairies and sedge meadows.

Perfect for container planting with its full, well-branched, green foliage. Once established requires little care. Great for cut flowers. Masses of large, crimson-red, flowers from summer to fall! This exciting new variety has the same wonderfully compact,...

The flowers have a strong clove-like scent. * Plants self-sow freely when grown in a suitable position. * Dianthus barbatus ( Sweet William ) is a species of Dianthus native to the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians...

* It is widely grown as a fodder crop, valued for its nitrogen fixation, which increases soil fertility. It is an ingredient in some recipes for essiac tea. The leaves are alternate, trifoliate (with three leaflets), each leaflet 15–30 mm long and 8–15...

The 'red' coloration of this butterfly magnet is often most pronounced in southern climates. Butterfly Bushes are easily grown, free flowering butterfly magnets and are moderately drought tolerant once well established.

The finely textured blue-green to deep green fragrant foliage of Narrow-Leaved Mountainmint is topped by large clusters of tiny light lavender to light pink tubular blooms in summer.

The bracts are probably more showy than the flowers but the flowers attract loads of pollinators including bees and small butterflies. Clustered Mountainmint is one of our favorites to pick and smell as we walk through the garden.

Indigo Spires has long been one of our favorites and is a reliable performer in the landscape producing a 2-4 high plant with medium green foliage. The nectar rich flowers provide fodder for a variety of pollinators including hummingbirds, butterflies,...

The leaves are gathered when the plant is in full bloom and are dried in the shade. Dried leaves were used as a tea substitute, albeit without caffeine, in American Revolutionary War times, hence the common name.

Major Wheeler produces loads of large clusters of deep red 2" tubular flowers with yellow throats are held above the rich blue-green disease resistant foliage of this selection of the tame native Coral Honeysuckle.

Spreads and slowly creates a dense groundcover or as a trailing plant in containers. A good choice for butterfly gardens. Homestead Verbena was discovered by Dr. Allan Armitage and Dr. Michael Dirr on an old homestead in Georgia.

* Centaurea americana , commonly called American Starthistle or American Basketflower , is an annual native to the southern central United States and northeastern Mexico. * The plant looks similar to the thistles but lacks their prickly characteristics...

Wonderful lightly scented clusters of white, red and purple flowers can measure one to two feet in length. Aptly named, the butterfly bush attracts loads of butterflies and is also a favorite of hummingbirds.

A beautiful and eye-catching addition to any garden setting as well as a long lasting cutflower for arrangements. A vigorous clump forming perennial common to stream banks and moist areas but will do fine in average garden soils.

* A good hedging plant, it is very tolerant of trimming. * Syringa josikaea ( Hungarian Lilac ) is a species of Lilac , native to central and eastern Europe , in the Carpathian Mountains in Hungary , Romania , and western Ukraine .

It is commonly grown in gardens for its showy purple flowers (pink or white in some cultivars). All spikes of purple flowers appear in July and August. Native to moist prairies and sedge meadows.

* It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico . * A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads.

It has become naturalised in many temperate areas, including the Americas and Australasia as an escape from cultivation. For these reasons, it is used as a green manure crop. * Dietary amounts of red clover are safe, but medicinal quantities may cause...

Scarlet Sage is the number one most recommended Salvia species for hummingbirds! A perennial in mild winter climates and may reseed under good conditions. Revels in the heat and sun but is known to flower in some shade as well! Deer resistant, moderately...