Wild Flower Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Illinois

Typically the first year of growth produces a mound of foliage and flowering occurs the second year, plants are normally biennials but a number of races can be short lived perennials .

Plants normally grow with one unbranched stem in the wild, but often produce multi-stemmed clumps in gardens. * Succeeds in ordinary garden soil but prefers a deep rich loam with plenty of leafmold and a sunny position.

Its tendency to quickly colonize open areas with little competition, such as sites of forest fires and forest clearings , makes it a clear example of a pioneer species . * Showy four-petaled summer flowers of magenta or rose pink on straight stalks; especially...

* Centaurea americana , commonly called American Starthistle or American Basketflower , is an annual native to the southern central United States and northeastern Mexico. * The plant is often cultivated for its showy flowers, and can sometimes be found...

In Germany over 200 pharmaceutical preparations are made from Echinacea. * Echinacea angustifolia ( Narrow-leaved purple coneflower , blacksamson echinacea ) is a herbaceous plant species in Asteraceae .

Plants normally grow with one unbranched stem in the wild, but often produce multi-stemmed clumps in gardens. * Succeeds in ordinary garden soil but prefers a deep rich loam with plenty of leafmold and a sunny position.

* Centaurea americana , commonly called American Starthistle or American Basketflower , is an annual native to the southern central United States and northeastern Mexico. * The plant is often cultivated for its showy flowers, and can sometimes be found...

* Paeonia anomala has an immense range of wild habitat, stretching from the Ural Mountains of Russia to the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia, then to the Mongolian Gobi Desert and the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan .

Mlokosewitschii (Lomakin) D.Y.Hong 2003. * In 2002, the Chinese botanist Hong Deyuan reduced it to a subspecies of Paeonia daurica, namely Paeonia daurica (Andrews ) subsp. The plant is sometimes nicknamed "Molly the Witch", a humorous mispronunciation...

Smaller ovate stem leaves are sessile. Synonymous with Buphthalmum speciosum. Coarse, aromatic, triangular, doubly-serrate, long-petioled, basal leaves (to 12" long) with cordate bases.

* A strong fibre is obtained from the stems, it is used for making string, bags, paper etc. * Lavatera thuringiaca is a species of Lavatera native to eastern Europe and southwestern Asia , from southern Germany south to Italy , and east to southern Russia...

* It is native to the central and eastern United States and Ontario in Canada. * 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.

Seed and tubers are poisonous. * Aconitum napellus (Monkshood, "aconite", "Wolf's Bane", Fuzi , "Monk's Blood", or "Monk's Hood") is a species of Aconitum in the family Ranunculaceae , native and endemic to western and central Europe .

* 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 fast and need staking;...

* Veratrum album , commonly known as the False Helleborine (also known as White Hellebore , European White Hellebore , White Veratrum ; syn. Veratrum lobelianum Bernh. * Upright stems topped by 1/2-1" flowers in a branched flower head, white, green, or...

* These plants thrive best in shady areas and under protection of larger plants, and in all but the hottest and the driest conditions in the United States. * Pale pink flowers. * This late summer blooming Japanese anemone is a native of China that grows...

* Aquilegia caerulea is the state flower of Colorado. * Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana south to New Mexico and west to Idaho and Arizona .

* The root is boiled and eaten like salsify. The taste somewhat resembles salsify or parsnips. Fleshy, sweet and succulent. * Oenothera biennis ( Common evening primrose or Evening star ) is a species of Oenothera native to eastern and central North America...

The leaves can also be finely chopped and added to salads. The leaves should be used before the plant starts to flower. This bitterness can be reduced by blanching the shoots as they appear from the ground.

(Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Hubei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mong) all in China. * Native to forest margins, grassy slopes; 400--2700 m.

* Linaria vulgaris ( Common Toadflax , Yellow Toadflax , or Butter-and-eggs ) is a species of toadflax ( Linaria ), native to most of Europe and northern Asia , from the United Kingdom south to Spain in the west, and east to eastern Siberia and western...

The flowers, 1.5–2.5 cm (1–1 in) in diameter, often fragrant, are white, pink, red, or purple, and borne in summer through fall (autumn). * Phlox paniculata is an erect herbaceous perennial growing to 120 cm (47 in) tall by 100 cm (39 in) wide, with...

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

* Malva moschata ( Musk-mallow ) is a species of Malva native to Europe and southwestern Asia , from Spain north to the British Isles and Poland , and east to southern Russia and Turkey .

Used as a potherb. * Tragopogon dubius (yellow salsify, western salsify, western goat's-beard, wild oysterplant, yellow goat's beard, goat's beard, goatsbeard, common salsify, salsify) is a species of salsify native to southern and central Europe and...

It grows to about a meter tall (when in flower) and has bright red flowers. Hybridizes freely with other members of this genus. * Grown for its beautiful red flowers in mid summer.

* White clover ( Trifolium repens ) is a species of clover native to Europe , North Africa , and West Asia . Thick growing and winter hardy. Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay.