Honey Bee Food Herbaceous Plant For Sale In San Antonio

* A low growing, persistent, perennial, cool season legume. Thrives in moist soil conditions, Prefers medium fertility soils with a pH between 6.0 - 6.5. Plants produce uncertain numbers of 4 leafed clovers considered lucky.

It is perhaps best known for its use as a hair tonic whilst the root is also taken internally as a treatment for non-malignant swollen glands and especially for mastitis. * Bearsfoot root was used by the North American Indians as a stimulant and laxative...

* Greater Burdock is rather tall, reaching as much as 9 feet (2.7 m). * Arctium lappa, commonly called greater burdock, gobo,edible burdock, lappa, or beggar's buttons, is a biennial plant of the Arctium (burdock) genus in the Asteraceae family, cultivated...

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 .

Arctium lappa is the main species used, though this species has similar properties. * Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in both Chinese and Western herbal medicine. * The Lesser Burdock , Arctium minus , is a biennial thistle , also known...

All are perennial, with numerous leafy stems growing from the base at the beginning of summer. Spreading growth to 24in. * There are numerous cultivars widely grown in horticulture.

The perennial's hairy, clasping leaves are arranged densely on its stout stems. * Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (formerly Aster novae-angliae), commonly known as the New England aster, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the Asteraceae family.

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...

A lemon-flavoured tea can be made from the fresh or dried leaves. * Lemon balm ( Melissa officinalis ), not to be confused with bee balm , Monarda species, is a perennial herb in the mint family Lamiaceae , native to southern Europe and the Mediterranean...

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.

* Bright yellow flowers.

* A good bee plant. * A very ornamental plant. * 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...

Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. * Tolerant of dry alkaline soils. A very ornamental plant, it prefers a continental climate with hot summers and cold winters.

* Leaves to 6"; branches brown and fuzzy; small clusters of 7-10 flowers; rounded fruit; native to northeast Asia.

* Ononis spinosa is a plant belonging to the family Fabaceae , that is commonly known as spiny restharrow or just restharrow . It is found throughout much of Europe but seldom as far north as Scotland .

* Arctostaphylos patula is a species of manzanita known by the common name greenleaf manzanita . This shrub reaches between one and two meters in height. * Red-brown bark, pink flowers, bright green leaves.

* Eupatorium perfoliatum or (Common) Boneset is a common perennial plant native to the Eastern United States and Canada , with a range from Nova Scotia to Florida , as well as from Louisiana and Texas through North Dakota .

The fibres are up to 50cm long, they are harvested commercially and used to make brushes, especially where these have to remain stiff in hot water or caustics. The fan-shaped fronds are 1.5–1.8 m (4.9–5.9 ft) wide and attach to 90–120 cm (35–47...

* The yellow rays are strongly downturned and the disk is dark brown. The basal leaves are long and slender or very narrowly lanceolate. * Echinacea paradoxa ( Bush's purple coneflower , Yellow Coneflower ) is a perennial species of flowering plant in...

The petals are colored white to pink with streaks of red, the anthers yellow, the stigma yellow/orange, and the filaments white. The central flower opens first, containing no bract and a pedicel 2-4 cm (0.8-1.6 in) long shorter and stouter than those...

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 .

The plant prefers loamy acid and neutral soils, and can grow in very acid soils.It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. * White flowers in long clusters; may be a tree or shrub; egg-shaped fruit with five "wings"; prefers moist sandy loam;...

* Eremurus spectabilis is a PERENNIAL growing to 1 m (3ft 3in) by 0.6 m (2ft). It is hardy to zone 6 and is not frost tender. The bulb is dried and powdered and then used for sizing cloth, bookbinding etc.

Long, dark-green leaves are velvety beneath. One to several trunks are crooked and the 4-6 in. Large with an agreeably acid flavour, theymake good preserves and a refreshing lemonade-like drink.

* It is in flower in June, and the seeds ripen in September. * A decidious Shrub growing to 5 m. * When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular.

* Eutrochium fistulosum (Eupatorium fistulosum), also called Joe-Pye weed, Trumpetweed, or Purple thoroughwort, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern North America, in southeast Canada and throughout the eastern and central...

Eupatorium has recently undergone some revision and has been broken up into smaller genera. It includes all the purple flowering North American species of the genus Eupatorium as traditionally defined.