Butterfly Attracting Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Kansas City

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. Grows 6'' tall. Mixed colors only.

Wonderful lightly scented clusters of white, red and purple flowers can measure one to two feet in length. Grows 4-8' tall. Outstanding when planted in full sun. Butterfly Bush is a must for every late summer perennial garden.

Perfect for container planting with its full, well-branched, green foliage. Grows 9-12” tall even in poor soils and is heat tolerant. Deer resistant. Masses of large, crimson-red, flowers from summer to fall! This exciting new variety has the same wonderfully...

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

* Blooms are 4" in diameter and are held from May until June. * The name basket flower refers to the stiff, straw-colored bracts just beneath the flower head, which are divided at the tip into long, sharp teeth.

* Unusual perennials with 2" spherical blue flowers in mid to late summer; the plant itself is rather rough and thistly with dark green leaves; good for middle or back of border; wants full sun and good drainage; can be dried for winter arrangements.

* The plant is said to be extremely efficacious when used as a local application in the treatment of sore throats and gonorrhoea. All spikes of purple flowers appear in July and August.

Rose of Sharon Hedge is a practical, lovely frame for your landscape. In mid-summer it bursts into bloom when little else is blooming and continues to flower through fall. Delightful red, white or purple hibiscus-shaped flowers blossom each summer in...

* Blooms are 4" in diameter and are held from May until June. * The name basket flower refers to the stiff, straw-colored bracts just beneath the flower head, which are divided at the tip into long, sharp teeth.

* Unusual perennials with 2" spherical blue flowers in mid to late summer; the plant itself is rather rough and thistly with dark green leaves; good for middle or back of border; wants full sun and good drainage; can be dried for winter arrangements.

* An herbal tea made from the plant was also used to treat mouth and throat infections caused by dental caries and gingivitis. * Monarda didyma (crimson beebalm, scarlet beebalm, scarlet monarda, Oswego tea, or bergamot) is an aromatic herb in the family...

It has a short ligule compared to other grasses, and is an important forage crop. On moist, rich soils. * It is a perennial which grows between 30 and 120 cm (47 in), flowering from June until July.

* Chives ( Allium schoenoprasum ) are the smallest species of the onion family Alliaceae * Allium schoenoprasum is also the only species of Allium native to both the New and the Old World and is a perennial .

(Our choice of color.) Plants may have single or double blooms. These hardy, erect-branching shrubs will grow 5-10' tall for an informal privacy screen or can be trimmed for a neat, colorful hedge.

* Bright yellow flowers.

* 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 . * A good hedging plant, it is very tolerant of trimming.

Blooms from summer to autumn with red flowers up to 3/4" long. Flower color and size is quite variable. The hairy leaves, scalloped on the edges, are pea green, varying in size, all the way up to 3 in (7.6 cm) long and 2 in (5.1 cm) wide.

A tea from the leaves is used as a highly effective cough medicine. The leaves contain mucilage, tannin and silic acid. Lanceolata contains phenylethanoids such as acteoside (verbascoside), cistanoside F, lavandulifolioside, plantamajoside and isoacteoside.

Flowers can range from nearly solid burgundy to nearly solid yellow and almost any combination in between. This is a tough and hardy, perennial US Native. Great for smaller pollinators.

It is an ingredient in some recipes for essiac tea. * It is widely grown as a fodder crop, valued for its nitrogen fixation, which increases soil fertility. The flowers are dark pink with a paler base, 12–15 mm long, produced in a dense inflorescence.

* 3" yellow-orange flowers in midsummer; native to southern U.S. * Coreopsis grandiflora is a perennial plant species of the tickseed genus, Coreopsis, in Asteraceae. The common name is large-flowered tickseed.

* Siberian Wallflower makes a dramatic vibrant addition to a wildflower meadow. * It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or biennial but will self seed.

For more information see the research paper " Nectar Theft and Floral Ant-Repellence: A Link between Nectar Volume and Ant-Repellent Traits? " by Gavin Ballantyne and Pat Willmer. This is one of the few plants that you will find consistently at nearly...

Attracts hummingbirds and occasional butterflies. Coral Honeysuckle or Trumpet Honeysuckle is a native vine that is vigorous and easy to grow as well as easy to control, unlike its white and yellow Japanese cousin.

It is also called "agueweed", "feverwort" or "sweating-plant". It is nearly always found in low, wet areas and is often found near Phalaris arundinacea (Reed canary grass). * Thoroughwort is one of the most popular domestic medicines in North America...

* 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 . * A good hedging plant, it is very tolerant of trimming.

It is also on the long list of plants that are larval hosts to the Gray Hairstreak Butterfly. Appalachian Mountainmint is native along much of the east coast from Virginia to Florida and west to Mississippi.