Honey Bee Food Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Colorado

* ANNUAL growing to 0.3 m (1ft). It is hardy to zone 6. 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...

* Thistley plants for full sun and poor dry soil; the half-inch flower heads, also like thistles, can be a fine metallic blue or blue purple; flowers in mid to late summer; in rich soil the plants grow too fast and need staking; may make a big clump of...

Paitan is antiseptic, astringent and haemostatic. It is used applied externally to burns, bleeding due to traumatic injuries, haemorrhoids and ulcers in the mouth. * An excrescence produced on the leaf by an insect Melaphis chinensis or M.

The basal leaves are long and slender or very narrowly lanceolate. Flower stalks are sturdy and straight, with solitary terminal flowers, and are smooth or slightly hairy. * Echinacea paradoxa ( Bush's purple coneflower , Yellow Coneflower ) is a perennial...

* It is an annual plant capable of rapid plant movement—its leaflets fold together when touched. * It is similar to Chamaecrista fasciculata except that the leaves are smaller. * Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or...

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. * Dandelion sprouts make a great micro-green.

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 is commonly kept as an ornamental plant.

It was formerly very popular either on its own or added to China tea, having a peculiar delicacy and aroma. * Agrimonia eupatoria is a species of agrimony that is often referred to as common agrimony , church steeples or sticklewort .

It is low to the ground with some of the lower branches rooting in the soil and others extending more outward than upward. * The fully ripe fruit is pleasantly acid with a flavour resembling green apples.

* Senna alata (also known as Cassia alata) is often called the ringworm bush because of its very effective fungicidal properties, for treating ringworm and other fungal infections of the skin.

Grows well in heavy clay soils. * Tolerates most soils and conditions, including poor soils and amongst the roots and under the drip of trees. It is native across much of North America.

* Sow seed early to mid spring in a greenhouse in a rich soil. * Requires a rich, well-drained moisture retentive soil and a very warm, sunny and sheltered position. They also generally display a greater resistance to disease and insects, especially to...

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 is commonly kept as an ornamental plant.

* The tender young shoots are sometimes added to spring salads. 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...

* Bright yellow flowers.

A pea-like flavour, they are very appetizing. * Swamp milkweed is an upright, 100- to 150-centimeter (39- to 59-inches) tall plant, growing from thick, fleshy, white roots . Typically, its stems are branched and the clump forming plants emerge in late...

Hairy red drupes are produced, which can be brewed into a tea. * The leaves and stems of fragrant sumac have a citrus fragrance when crushed, and it inhabits mostly uplands areas, while poison ivy has no odor and can inhabit various habitats.

They are harvested with about 20cm of stem as soon as the flowers wither and are dried for later use. Sativus) was formerly widely used in textile processing, providing a natural comb for cleaning, aligning and raising the nap on fabrics, particularly...

The trunk reaches 12–15 m (39–49 ft) in length and 30 cm (12 in) in diameter. An excellent fibre is obtained from the leaf stalks. The fan-shaped fronds are 1.5–1.8 m (4.9–5.9 ft) wide and attach to 90–120 cm (35–47 in) spineless petioles...

It flowers from mid-summer to the first frosts, makes an attractive backdrop in garden plots, and is very attractive to butterflies, bees, and other nectar-feeding insects. * The plant has one simple erect stem, which is green with purple dots or longitudinal...

The soft, light wood is especially useful for making food boxes, yardsticks, furniture, and pulpwood. A favorite of bees they make good honey from the nectar. The winter buds are stout, ovate-acute, smooth, deep red, with two bud scales visible.

Its leaves are about 2-3 in (5–8 cm) long, lance-shaped, and toothed. * Wild bergamot was considered a medicinal plant by many Native Americans including the Menominee, the Ojibwe, and the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk).

A fast-growing tree, especially in its first few years from seed. * Succeeds in most reasonably good soils in an open sunny position. Tolerates light shade, though it fruits better in a sunny position.

* Plants seem to be immune to the predations of rabbits. Flabellata pumila. * Succeeds in ordinary garden soil, preferring a moist but not wet soil and a sunny position. * The name of this species is based on the cultivated form, the true wild form is...

* Scarlet flowers; native to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana * Fine plant for naturalizing in moist soils and where there is some shade. * When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular.

It was formerly very popular either on its own or added to China tea, having a peculiar delicacy and aroma. * Agrimonia eupatoria is a species of agrimony that is often referred to as common agrimony , church steeples or sticklewort .

* It is naturalized almost everywhere and is usually found in disturbed areas, especially in soil rich in nitrogen. * The root is very crisp and has a sweet, mild, and pungent flavor.