Butterfly Attracting Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In St Louis

Grows in sunny warm areas where it will tolerate heat and drought very well. Firefly's intensely colored tiny evergreen leaves that cover the stems of the plant are a brilliant combination of yellow and chartreuse in the summer.

* 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...

* It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico . * Ratibida columnifera , commonly known as Upright Prairie Coneflower or Mexican Hat , is a species of flowering...

Flower stalks are sturdy and straight, with solitary terminal flowers, and are smooth or slightly hairy. * The yellow rays are strongly downturned and the disk is dark brown. The basal leaves are long and slender or very narrowly lanceolate.

It differs from other similar species in that it has 4 lobed flowers, whereas Small Scabious and Field scabious have 5 lobes and hence it has been placed in a separate genus in the same family .

Nettles are a very valuable addition to the diet, they are a very nutritious food that is easily digested and is high in minerals (especially iron) and vitamins (especially A and C).

It was much used by the North American Indians and acquired a reputation as a heal-all amongst the earlier white settlers. The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2-3 cm broad.

Their addition to the diet aids the digestion and so they are often used in small quantities as a flavouring, especially with fatty foods. * The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Aromatic and somewhat bitter.

* t is a deciduous shrub, growing to 1.5 m tall. It is still used for most of the same purposes in modern herbalism. It is native to eastern North America , from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia , and west to Minnesota .

* It grows to a height of 3 metres and has whorls of striking lipped flowers, that are most commonly orange, but can vary to red, white, and purple. It can also be found growing abundantly in much of Latin America and the West Indies.

Our Conservation Garden Assortment attracts and helps protect nature's hardest workers. Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate in recovering this important natual resource.

A tough and hardy, drought tolerant, perennial US Native. Masses of tall wispy deep pink spikes are covered by a succession of large pink butterfly-like flowers throughout summer.

Almost Eden's Purple Lace Sky Flower presented itself as a seedling and we chose it as a new cultivar due to its larger unique flowers. Duranta's are tropical to subtropical evergreen shrubs but can easily be trained into medium-sized tree standards.

The native Coral Honeysuckle is not an aggressive vine, unlike the white and yellow flowered invasive Japanese Honeysuckle. Considered by many to be the best of the red flowered Coral Honeysuckles.

Neglecta , that has white, pink, to purplish ray petals that more closely resemble those of the Sanguin Purple Coneflower, E. Paradoxa , is a taprooted native that is typically found in or near the shallow soils of rocky glades and prairies as well as...

The Maypop Passionvine or Passion Flower produces a summer long display of 2-3" wide white, lavender, and purple exotic flowers that are held against medium green tropical foliage.

Although the Sweet William is a perennial species, it is quite short-lived and degenerates after its second year. * A very ornamental plant, its flowers are very attractive to butterflies and moths.

Raise Monarch Butterflies in your own backyard! The Monarchs migrate through our area just as the Asclepias begin to awaken in spring, just in time for the females to lay their eggs on the new growth.

Purple Coneflowers are practically indestructible because they are sub-zero hardy and withstand heat, grow in dry locations and love poor soil. Charming 5'' purple daisy-like blooms with orange-brown raised centers.

Butterfly Bushes are often intensely fragrant on summer evenings. Huge, conicle, bright pink bloom spikes can reach 18" long and 4" wide at the base! An excellent choice for butterfly gardens.

If your Salvia or Sage starts to look unkempt in mid to late summer consider giving it a light shearing or remove the spent flowering spikes to help promote new growth and flower production.

Rich red 3" flowers clusters. The Butterfly Series Pentas are excellent heat and humidity tolerant free flowering Pentas with a medium sized well-branched growth habit. An excellent choice for butterfly and hummingbird gardens that will flower from summer...

Dracocephalum is moderately drought resistant once well-established and is considered to be deer resistant. It prefers a well-drained soil and may need midday shade in hot summer climates.

* The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff.

Called Popcorn Cassia because when brushed or crushed the foliage emits the wonderful fragrance of freshly buttered popcorn. Tall spikes of dark golden yellow 1" blooms are born in summer and fall on an upright growing shrub.

Their addition to the diet aids the digestion and so they are often used in small quantities as a flavouring, especially with fatty foods. * The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Aromatic and somewhat bitter.

It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States. It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer. * It was believed by some native North American Indian tribes that if the finely ground roots were...