Honey Bee Food Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Chicago

* The latex in the stems is a suitable replacement for chicle and can be made into a chewing gum. * The unopened flower buds are eaten cooked. It is in the genus Asclepias , making it a type of milkweed .

It is commonly grown in gardens for its showy purple flowers (pink or white in some cultivars). Native to moist prairies and sedge meadows. * Liatris spicata , the dense blazing star or prairie gay feather , is an herbaceous perennial plant native throughout...

Contain poisonous chemicals similar to those found in many other genera in the Ranunculaceae. Annua), has flowers with bright red petals. * They are cultivated for use in gardens, and have been introduced to North America.

* Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or Wild Sensitive Plant) is a herbaceous species of legume widely distributed through the temperate and tropical Americas.

* Fuller's teasel (the cultivar group Dipsacus fullonum Sativus Group; syn. They are harvested with about 20cm of stem as soon as the flowers wither and are dried for later use. The dried flower heads were attached to spindles, wheels, or cylinders, sometimes...

* A nutritious starch is obtained from the root. They are useful in the treatment of chest complaints. * A refreshing tea is made from the flower petals. * The flowers are demulcent, diuretic and emollient.

* Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or Wild Sensitive Plant) is a herbaceous species of legume widely distributed through the temperate and tropical Americas.

* Clusters of light yellow to orange flowers atop a sparsely branched perennial or in axils of compound leaves. Two other species, Sicklepod (S. * Senna hebecarpa ( American Senna or Wild Senna ) is an ornamental plant native to North America , specially...

The leaves are applied externally to cuts etc as an antiseptic dressing. * The most distinctive feature of Teucrium species is the seemingly 1-lipped corolla. * A tea made from the leaves is diaphoretic, diuretic and emmenagogue.

Mature in 45 to 65 days. * This is an Heirloom favorite. It is an early bush zucchini that produces a high yield of straight dark green cylindrical fruit. * The fruits are loaded with vitamins and minerals yet low in calories!

* The latex in the stems is a suitable replacement for chicle and can be made into a chewing gum. * The unopened flower buds are eaten cooked. It is in the genus Asclepias , making it a type of milkweed .

* In Great Britain it is most valuable in the south, though less successful in northern regions. It is found to succeed better when only the surface of the soil is stirred by the scarifier and harrow than when a plowing is given.

The leaves are applied externally to cuts etc as an antiseptic dressing. * The most distinctive feature of Teucrium species is the seemingly 1-lipped corolla. * A tea made from the leaves is diaphoretic, diuretic and emmenagogue.

The plant contains various toxic compounds, including daphnetoxin and mezerein, and these are currently being investigated (1995) for their anti-leukaemia effects. * Lilac or rosy-purple wonderfully fragrant 1/2" flowers in early spring; red fruit in...

* A nutritious starch is obtained from the root. They are useful in the treatment of chest complaints. * A refreshing tea is made from the flower petals. * The flowers are demulcent, diuretic and emollient.

It is the type species of the subgenus Padus with flowers in racemes , which are hermaphroditic and pollinated by bees and flies; it is a deciduous small tree or large shrub 8–16 m tall.

The plant, however, should be used with some caution since large doses are laxative and emetic and the plant might contain potentially liver-harming pyrrolizidine alkaloids. * Thoroughwort is one of the most popular domestic medicines in North America...

It is native to almost every area in North America east of the Rocky Mountains, but excluding the far north of Canada as well as some of the southern United States. * Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (formerly Aster novae-angliae), commonly known as the New...

The plant is little used in modern herbalism but has been employed in the treatment of laryngitis and bronchitis. Umbelliferous plants are so named because of the umbrella-like arrangement of flowers they produce.

The 5–45 cm long and 1–10 cm wide leaves are oblanceolate, oblong, or obovate in shape with the bases gradually narrowing to the petiole. Tender young leaves are considerably less bitter than older leaves.

The blossoms are analgesic, astringent and febrifuge. * An infusion of the dried powdered herb can be used as an antiseptic. Canadensis is sometimes browsed by deer and is good to fair as food for domestic livestock such as cattle or horses.

Dislikes exposed positions. Grows best in a woodland situation, young plants tolerate a reasonable level of side shade. Nutlets are attached to narrow bract-like wings. Flowers give way to ovoid-globose nutlets that ripen in late summer.

* Plants can be grown as a medium-size hedge. * Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry ) is a species of Berberis , native to Japan and eastern Asia .

* An herbaceous perennial, forming a basal rosette to 1', from which arise 3' flowering stems with purplish blue (rarely pink or white) flowers resembling scabiosa; likes moist, peaty soil in sun or part shade; native to Europe, north Africa, east to...

The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils and requires well-drained soil.The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils..It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade.It requires moist soil.

It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant. * 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...

The blossoms are analgesic, astringent and febrifuge. * An infusion of the dried powdered herb can be used as an antiseptic. Canadensis is sometimes browsed by deer and is good to fair as food for domestic livestock such as cattle or horses.