Butterfly Attracting Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Jacksonville

* This is a glandular, woolly perennial which approaches a maximum height of two metres.Its erect, branching gray stems bear the occasional sharply toothed, sharp-lobed pointed green leaf.

* Erect, bushy annual with oval to heart-shaped, toothed, hairy, dark green leaves 2 1/2" long. Flower color and size is quite variable. Spreading growth to 12". Flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds and butterflies.

* 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.

Both are dried for later use. An infusion has been used in the treatment of fevers and heart problems. * The leaves and seedpods are cathartic, diuretic and vermifuge. The leaves are harvested before and during flowering, the pods are harvested when fully...

Plant 10-12” apart in full sun. Once established requires little care. Masses of large, crimson-red, flowers from summer to fall! This exciting new variety has the same wonderfully compact, uniform growth habit as Arizona Sun Gaillardia, but in the...

It also grows on damper ground . * Succisa pratensis Moench, also known as Devil's-bit Scabious, is a flowering plant of the genus Succisa in the family Dipsacaceae . It differs from other similar species in that it has 4 lobed flowers, whereas Small...

Grow 2-3' tall. It blooms from early summer until frost. Award winner! Black-eyed Susans have rich, golden yellow petals set off by bronze-black centers. Bloom: July-September. Great cut flower.

* This heirloom variety matures in about 80-90 days but some stems can be cut before maturity. It is perennial so will continue to supply fresh chives for years to come. * Chives ( Allium schoenoprasum ) are the smallest species of the onion family Alliaceae...

One of the most prolific sources of massed color, blooms from July to frost. The long flower trusses provide a never-ending source of cut flowers. In fall, after flowering, prune back to within a few inches of ground.

* Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent.

Choice one-year-old field-grown plants. They grow well in sun or light shade. Enjoy astonishing numbers of snowy, gold-centered blooms every June and July. Will bloom again in late summer if spring blossoms are cut off.

Growing up to a meter tall, it lives in zones 4 to 9 in moist to wet soils. * The Great Blue Lobelia ( Lobelia siphilitica ) is a species within the Campanulaceae family. It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United...

The plants have showy blooms in early to mid spring. * Hesperis matronalis grows 100 cm or taller, with multiple upright hairy stems. Typically the first year of growth produces a mound of foliage and flowering occurs the second year, plants are normally...

Marilandica) is a more southern species with fewer flowers and bigger leaflets. The flowers of this large plant are not typically pea-like. * Senna hebecarpa ( American Senna or Wild Senna ) is an ornamental plant native to North America , specially Canada...

Grows 18-24'' tall and wide. In the fall and winter, the foliage is bright red. Firefly's intensely colored tiny evergreen leaves that cover the stems of the plant are a brilliant combination of yellow and chartreuse in the summer.

* Dietary amounts of red clover are safe, but medicinal quantities may cause rash-like reactions, muscle ache, headache, nausea, vaginal bleeding in women, and slow blood clotting.

Thrives in deep rich soil, but also grows well on poorer sandy soils providing they are moist. * Loosely tufted perennial, short lived bunchgrass. * It is a perennial which grows between 30 and 120 cm (47 in), flowering from June until July.

* This is the common European catmint and a spreading plant. Common behaviors cats display when they sense the bruised leaves or stems of catnip are rubbing on the plant, rolling on the ground, pawing at it, licking it, and chewing it.

Grows 6-8' tall. Drought and deer resistant. A breakthrough in color! Bi-color is the first Butterfly Bush to feature multiple colors on each bloom. It is an excellent attractant for butterflies and hummingbirds.

It grows rapidly in spring, and yields an abundant crop of green food, particularly palatable to live stock. It is also suitable for making into hay. * In Great Britain it is most valuable in the south, though less successful in northern regions.

It is much cultivated as a culinary herb . * Leaves and flowering tops - raw in salads, used as a garnish or added as a flavouring to cooked foods, going especially well with mushrooms and courgettes.

Petiole 1-3 cm, glabrous or pubescent; leaf blade elliptic-oblong, elliptic, or obovate-oblong, 3.5-12(-18) 1.5-7(-10) cm, adaxially glabrous or sparsely pubescent, abaxially villous, base cuneate to subrounded, apex usually acute to acuminate.

A pink variety of this species is sometimes grown commercially. * New England American-aster is large and showy, growing to 6 or more ft. * Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (formerly Aster novae-angliae), commonly known as the New England aster, is a flowering...

Stems with seed pods make excellent additions to dried flower arrangements. * It is often used as an ornamental plant. * Gomphocarpus physocarpus, commonly known as balloonplant, balloon cotton-bush, bishop's balls, nailhead, or swan plant, is a species...

* Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever, coughs, womb prolapse and malaria. * It grows to a height of 3 metres and has whorls of striking lipped flowers, that are most commonly orange, but...

A perennial which may freeze to the ground in winter in the cooler portions of its range. 1" golden yellow daisies sit atop the dark rich green foliage of this durable groundcover.

The USDA Plants database offers 11 synonyms for Phyla nodiflora but are generally variations of Lippia incisa, Lippia nodiflora , and Lippia reptans . A food source for the Buckeye, Phaon Crescent, and White Peacock butterfly caterpillars as well as a...