Wild Flower Butterfly Attracting Plant For Sale In Worcester

* Blooms are 4" in diameter and are held from May until June. * Centaurea americana , commonly called American Starthistle or American Basketflower , is an annual native to the southern central United States and northeastern Mexico.

Well-known species include Meadowsweet (F. Occidentalis) and Queen-of-the-prairie (F. Rubra), native to North America. Vulgaris), both native to Europe, and Queen-of-the-forest (F.

* This hardy perennial plant grows to 0.7-1.5 m in height, with the stems square in cross-section. * Its odor is considered similar to that of the bergamot orange (the source of bergamot oil used to flavor Earl Grey tea.

Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies. * The plant is said to be extremely efficacious when used as a local application in the treatment of sore throats and gonorrhoea. Native to moist prairies and sedge meadows.

* It is native to California and Oregon, where it grows in several types of habitats, including chaparral and Coast redwood forests. America where it is considered to be especially useful as an expectorant.

* A good hedging plant, it is very tolerant of trimming. * Syringa josikaea ( Hungarian Lilac ) is a species of Lilac , native to central and eastern Europe , in the Carpathian Mountains in Hungary , Romania , and western Ukraine .

* This is the familiar lilac seen next to every old farmhouse. * Plants can be grown as an informal hedge. * An essential oil used in perfumery is obtained from the flowers. * The bark or leaves have been chewed by children as a treatment for sore mouth.

It is one of two honeysuckles native to Britain, the other being the Common Honeysuckle ( Lonicera periclymenum ). * Lonicera xylosteum , commonly known as Fly honeysuckle , European Fly Honeysuckle , Dwarf Honeysuckle or Fly Woodbine is a deciduous shrub.

* Bright yellow flowers.

* It is native to California and Oregon, where it grows in several types of habitats, including chaparral and Coast redwood forests. America where it is considered to be especially useful as an expectorant.

Bark and branchlets grayish black. Trunk to 30 cm d.b.h. or more. Petiole 2-4.5 cm; leaf blade often purplish red when young, greenish when mature, cordate or triangular-orbicular, * Open or dense forests, mountain slopes, along valleys near roads, on...

Cats relish the intoxicating leaves and the tea is a popular night cap. Older leaves areused as a flavouring in cooked foods. The 2 to 3 inch leaves are ovate to cordate, opposite, and coarsely toothed, they are covered with soft, white fuzz.

* The wood is hard and heavy, suitable for making furniture and other small articles. * Dark green shiny leaves, yellow, bronzy, and red in fall; 1/3" bright red fruit, good bird food; large shrub, can be trained as a small tree; susceptible to fireblight;...

* This plant is grown as an ornamental garden plant. * A slender, hairy-stemmed plant bearing flower heads with drooping, yellow rays surrounding a roundish to ellipsoid, grayish central disk darkening to brown as rays drop off.

* A vigorous plant, spreading by subterranean suckers and forming thickets. * Spiraea tomentosa , commonly known as the Steeplebush , is a plant similar in characteristic to the Hardhack ( S.

* Blue, pinky-blue, lilac, or lavenderish flowers 1 1/4" wide atop 3' stems; native to meadows and grassy hills, particularly on limestone; good for wild garden; native to E. A homeopathic remedy is made from the plant.

Well-known species include Meadowsweet (F. Occidentalis) and Queen-of-the-prairie (F. Rubra), native to North America. Vulgaris), both native to Europe, and Queen-of-the-forest (F.

* Bright yellow flowers.

* This hardy perennial plant grows to 0.7-1.5 m in height, with the stems square in cross-section. * Its odor is considered similar to that of the bergamot orange (the source of bergamot oil used to flavor Earl Grey tea.

An asparagus substitute. Young seed pods, harvested when 3 - 4 cm long - cooked. * Fragrant pinkish flowers followed by the pods beloved of children. * Swamp milkweed is an upright, 100- to 150-centimeter (39- to 59-inches) tall plant, growing from thick,...

* Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer. 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 has become naturalised in many temperate areas, including the Americas and Australasia as an escape from cultivation. * Trifolium pratense is the national flower of Denmark and the state flower of Vermont.

* A good hedging plant, it is very tolerant of trimming. * Syringa josikaea ( Hungarian Lilac ) is a species of Lilac , native to central and eastern Europe , in the Carpathian Mountains in Hungary , Romania , and western Ukraine .

* Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer. 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 .

The fruit is an edible blue-black berry under a centimeter wide. * Ribes nevadense is an erect shrub growing 1 to 2 meters tall. The glandular leaves are up to 8 centimeters long and are divided shallowly into a few dully toothed lobes.

The fruit is about the size of an olive. The new bark is pleasant to chew. I never knew about the Spicebush Swallowtail until recently though, thanks to the internet! I think I would grow these just to see the caterpillars! I'll be checking my plants...

Dried leaves were used as a tea substitute, albeit without caffeine, in American Revolutionary War times, hence the common name. * Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade.