Butterfly Attracting Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Des Moines

* The Tecate cypress is the only plant on which the rare Thorne's Hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus thornei) lays its eggs. The tree is found only in the Santa Ana Mountains of Orange County and in San Diego County within Southern California, and in northern...

Award winner! Black-eyed Susans have rich, golden yellow petals set off by bronze-black centers. Drought tolerant, attracts butterflies and hummbingbirds, for a rain garden. Bloom: July-September.

This species can be found in China and Japan. * Lavender flowers from June until August, followed by violet fruits in October; extremely attractive, smaller than C. They are cultivated for ornamental use in gardens.

Extremely hardy, they thrive in any garden with little care. Profusion of blooms from June through September. Rose of Sharon grows 5-10' tall. An excellent source for cut flowers. You'll enjoy this old-fashioned favorite that bears an abundance of large,...

Will bloom again in late summer if spring blossoms are cut off. Enjoy astonishing numbers of snowy, gold-centered blooms every June and July. It is an easy to grow perennial that spreads fast.

* 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 U.S., Canada , and Mexico .

Plant in full sun. Attract both butterflies and hummingbirds with their delightful scent. Pretty lavender-blue flowers bloom all the way through summer. Aromatic gray-green foliage.

* The crushed leaves are very aromatic. It is also used where it grows in Pakistan and Balochistan for dysentery. It is also tolerant of dry, chalky soils with a high pH, salt tolerant, and drought tolerant at an established age.

The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2-3 cm broad. * Asclepias tuberosa is a species of milkweed native to eastern North America . Its main use in present day herbalism is for relieving the pain and inflammation of pleurisy.

Sweet William is a popular favorite because this perennial has large clusters of small blooms that come in striking colors of red, pink, white, and bi-colors. Sweet William blooms in early summer with flowers that have a sassy, spicy fragrance.

* Use Ornamental: Showy, Ground cover Conspicuous Flowers: yes Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Pipevine swallowtail butterfly. * Aristolochia serpentaria is a species of perennial flowering plant in the Aristolochiaceae (birthwort) family.

Slender twigs are glabrous and silvery gray, with "numerous spur shoots", pointed lateral buds, and acuminate scales. Leaves are obovate , simple, alternating, deciduous , and grow to 2.5-7.5 cm long.

* Dark purple or purplish blue flowers in spikes; fast, coarse growth, good for dry, poor soil. * It is found throughout eastern Canada, northern Mexico, and most of the continental United States.

Our Conservation Garden Assortment attracts and helps protect nature's hardest workers. Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate in recovering this important natual resource.

* The blossoms have been used in the treatment of measles. The fruits are popular with birds, who distribute the seeds. * The fruit is a bright red or sometimes purple drupe containing 3 to 5 seeds.

* When the bark or leaves are cut they secrete a reddish resin, one of several sources of substances known as dragon's blood. Its age was estimated in 1975 to be around 250 years, with a maximum of 365 years, not several thousand as had previously been...

It is native to Europe and western Asia. * Scabiosa ochroleuca, commonly called cream scabious, is a species of scabiosa with creamy yellow flower heads.

The fruits are capsules 1 to 3 centimeters long and containing black seed. It is generally yellow or yellow-green with bulbous yellow flowers. Seed - ground into a flour. Flower stalk - roasted[183].

Immature flowering stems - cooked in much the same way as broccoli. Added to salads or used as a potherb. The leaves are also fermented for later use. It has 18-20% crude protein, is quite heat, cold and drought tolerant, and fast growing.

* The chestnut oak is readily identified by its massively-ridged dark gray-brown bark, the thickest of any eastern North American oak. It weighs 47lb per cubic foot. Used commercially like Q.

* Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern...

The plant has a lignified stem with green branches bearing five to nine leaflets. * Hippocrepis emerus or the scorpion senna is a species of perennial plant belonging to the genus Hippocrepis in the Fabaceae family.

* A mint-like flavour, they make an aromatic flavouring in salads. It can be a repellent for certain insects, including aphids and squash bugs. The leaf tops are gray-green and the bottoms are white with hairs.

* Nicotiana glauca is a species of wild tobacco known by the common name tree tobacco. The Cahuilla Indians used leaves interchangeably with other tobacco species in hunting rituals and as a poultice to treat swellings, bruises, cuts, wounds, boils, sores,...

* Sweet fern was employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes who used it especially as a poultice to treat a variety of complaints. * t is a deciduous shrub, growing to 1.5 m tall.

* A shrub or small tree; silvery throughout, with compound leaves and pale yellow flowers in pendulous clusters to 6", each 3/4" wide; pods to 6"; native to seashores of the Old World tropics .

Acaulis (L.) Hill) is a species of Primula native to western and southern Europe (from the Faroe Islands and Norway south to Portugal , and east to Germany, Ukraine , the Crimea , and the Balkans ), northwest Africa ( Algeria ), and southwest Asia ( Turkey...