Perennial Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Antioch

* The poisonous alkaloid 'colchicine' is extracted from this plant and used to alter the genetic make-up of plants in an attempt to find new, improved varieties. It works by doubling the chromosome number.

* The leaves are cardiac, stimulant and tonic. * Yellowish flowers marked with rusty red, particularly on the inside; in spikes; biennial or short-lived perennial; full or part sun, dry, well-drained soil; flowering in summer; native to southern Europe...

In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu". * Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe .

* Flora of Pakistan states: According to B. However, as it is associated with cemetries, it is not clear whether it is a truly wild plant in Kashmir or an introduction from places unknown.

* An attractive garden flower, blooms in May or June, 1 1/2" flowers, several per stem. * The flowers are very fragrant, diffusing a powerful clove-like scent. * Plants can be grown on walls.

* The plants flower from late spring to late summer, and are pollinated by butterflies and bumble bees. * The leaves are deeply lobed with 3 to 7 toothed, pointed lobes in a palmate shape.

* Greater celandine has an erect habit, and may reach 30 to 120 cm high. The sap is yellow to orange.The flowers consist of four yellow petals , each about 1 cm long, with two sepals .

Seeds with whitish elaiosomes are borne in long pods .The plant often goes dormant in summer after blooming. * The plant most of us think of as Bleeding Heart; extremely popular, and for good reason; each arching spike, often held horizontally, is lined...

It is a fairly short variety, growing only to 3 feet high. It is native to Europe and Asia; in the USA it grows best in American Horticultural Society zones 8 to 1. * An herbaceous perennial that sends up new stems each spring, each shoot emerging from...

It was used as a face paint by the North American Indians. * A red dye is obtained from the sap of the root. * The crushed root has been applied to the body as an insect repellent.

It contains some of the most bitter compounds known and is used as a scientific basis for measuring bitterness. It is especially useful in states of exhaustion from chronic disease and in all cases of debility, weakness of the digestive system and lack...

* The poisonous alkaloid 'colchicine' is extracted from this plant and used to alter the genetic make-up of plants in an attempt to find new, improved varieties. It works by doubling the chromosome number.

A gently warming and tonic herb, it is especially effective in treating coughs, consumption, bronchitis and many other complaints of the chest as well as disorders of the digestive system.

It is native to East Asia (such as China , Korea , Japan , and East Siberia ) and bears big blue flowers, although varieties with white and pink flowers are in cultivation. In Korea, white flowers are more common.

Leaves are finely divided and yellow-green to gray-green, often remaining over winter. * Yellow corydalis grows to 30–38 cm (12–15 in) tall. * Perennial with small yellow flowers throughout the summer; makes a nice bluish mound of delicate foliage;...

Spiraea japonica is superior landscape plant, and best used in borders, cottage gardens or hedges. Easy to grow in full sun, spirea tolerates a wide range of soils and is deer resistant.

The flower consists of six petals curving backward from the center. The seeds mature from August to September. * Lilium pensylvanicum reaches a height of 30 cm to 70 cm and has a width up to 25 cm.

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

Blooms appear in late summer to early fall on branching-at-the-top stems rising to 4-6' tall. Features sprays of single, daisy-like flower heads (to 3.5” across) with yellow rays and large, flattened, orange-yellow center disks.

* The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and as a result is becoming uncommon in the wild. It merits consideration for cultivation in forest areas.

* Flora of Pakistan states: According to B. However, as it is associated with cemetries, it is not clear whether it is a truly wild plant in Kashmir or an introduction from places unknown.

* Grow in sun or partial shade in peat or moss. This conflicts with the hardiness rating of 7 (temperatures down to between -5 and -10°c) given in . * Sarracenia flava , the Yellow pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the family Sarraceniaceae .

* An attractive garden flower, blooms in May or June, 1 1/2" flowers, several per stem. * The flowers are very fragrant, diffusing a powerful clove-like scent. * Plants can be grown on walls.

* The flowers are purple, borne in summer. * Astilbe chinensis is a herbaceous plant with alternate, pinnately compound leaves, on thin stems.

The leaf texture and dainty flowers are appealing. Use in larger gardens with partial shade. * An interesting garden plant.

Miyabeanum , and P. Macounii ) is a boreal flowering plant. Native to subpolar regions of northern Europe and North America, Iceland poppies are hardy but short-lived perennials ,grown as biennials , that yield large, papery, bowl-shaped, lightly fragrant...

* Plants are reliably perennial if they are prevented from setting seed. * Early America settlers boiled parts of the plant to make into candy and they also used it as an ingredient in cake .