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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. Leaves appear in whorls of 3–5.

* Grow in fertile, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade. It provides good architectural height and framework for small gardens. Crispa occurs on the current year's growth.

* Echinacea purpurea ( Eastern purple coneflower or Purple coneflower ) is a species of flowering plant in the genus Echinacea . Its cone-shaped flowering heads are usually, but not always purple.

A decoction is used in the treatment of lung ailments. Each fall, I enjoy it very much since it blooms when most other blooms in the garden are gone. * When it does not freeze, the Confederate rose can reach heights of 12 to 15 feet with a woody trunk;...

Miyabeanum , and P. * A perennial poppy with 2-3" pink, red, orange, greenish, or yellow fragrant flowers; most of the leaves are basal; native to Eurasia and to North America from the Arctic to Colorado.

Seeds should produce mostly blue flowers, but may show some breaks to colors of reds, yellows and bicolors. Requires an acid to neutral soil. Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby.

* The leaves are alternate, bipinnately compound leaves; with a ovate shape and a pinnate venation, they have a green color usually and turns yellow in fall, measuring between 5-10 cm long.The flowers are small and yellow with a touch of red at the base,...

The flowers are red and scented with numerous yellow stamens in the centre. * Paeonia tenuifolia is sometimes called the fern leaf peony . * The narrow, divided leaves are almost thread-like and grow close together on the stems.

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 .

* Eremurus robustus is a plant native to the Tien Shan and Pamir Mountains in central Asia that is often used as an ornamental plant. It prefers sandy, well-drained soil and full sun.

* Grow in fertile, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade. It provides good architectural height and framework for small gardens. Crispa occurs on the current year's growth.

Used like potatoes or as a thickener in soups. * The bulb is eaten cooked. * Lilium superbum is a species of true lily native to the eastern and central regions of North America . Common names include, Turk's Cap Lily , Turban Lily , Swamp lily or American...

An infusion of the dried stalks has been used in the treatment of inflammation of the bladder. It is found in wetlands and along the riverine systems of the southeastern United States from Texas to the Atlantic states, its territory extending northward...

When taken over an extended period it is said to increase mental efficiency and physical performance whilst helping the body adapt to high or low temperatures and stress. * Grown in moist woods; greenish-white flowers, bright red 1/2" fruit; grown for...

* A sprawling plant unless staked, perhaps best for romping through a semi-wild border; small blue flowers in considerable numbers in midsummer; full sun or part shade, persistent once established; native to China.

The flowers are inconspicuous, whitish to greenish-yellow, produced on slender peduncles 25 mm or more long; it is usually dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

Coarse, aromatic, triangular, doubly-serrate, long-petioled, basal leaves (to 12" long) with cordate bases. Leaves are glabrous above and hairy below. Synonymous with Buphthalmum speciosum.

* Lacy leaves of a deep red in the spring but foliage color fades to light green in early summer. It is frost hardy to about 14 F , and recommended to be in a sheltered area for the first few years.

* The "weeping" label in some of its common names refers to the copious quantities of nectar that may rain from the flowers when shaken rather than a tendency of the foliage to "weep" or "droop".

The flowers are golden yellow and sweet scented, are grouped in pendulous racemes upto 25 cm long, and typically bloom in May. * The wood is coarse grained,durable, dark coloured and very hard, it can be used as an ebony substitute.

The terminal inflorescense contains many spikelets that are crowded into dense, nearly spherical heads on rays that angle out in different directions. * A sedge with stems to 4 1/2 ft.

Hybridizes freely with other members of this genus. * Lobelia cardinalis ( Cardinal Flower ) is a species of Lobelia native to the Americas , from southeastern Canada south through the eastern and southwestern United States , Mexico and Central America...

* Bristly locust is perhaps the best erosion control shrub for steep sloping sites with active erosion. It has the ability to fix nitrogen in the soil, and with light shade it does not inhibit growth of annual and perennial herbs.

A good black dye is obtained from the root if it is mixed with iron sulphate. It is brown otherwise. A delicately scented essential oil, obtained from the roots, has been used to adulterate the oil of Acorus calamus.

* A decidious Tree growing to 10 m (32ft) by 10 m (32ft) at a fast rate. * Foot-long clusters of yellow flowers in midsummer, followed by red or brownish "pods" that persist into fall; Dirr calls it a "beautiful dense tree of regular rounded outline,...

* A fine yellow dye is obtained from the juice of the plant, it is very durable. * Serratula tinctoria , commonly known as Saw-wort , is a species in the genus Serratula . It grows in moist soil, full sun to part shade, and grows up to one meter tall.

), is a medicinal plant of the Liliaceae (lily family) or Melanthiaceae which is native to Europe . Veratrum lobelianum Bernh. * Veratrum album , commonly known as the False Helleborine (also known as White Hellebore , European White Hellebore , White...