Butterfly Attracting Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Lafayette

Rose of Sharon grows 5-10' tall. Profusion of blooms from June through September. An excellent source for cut flowers. You'll enjoy this old-fashioned favorite that bears an abundance of large, hibiscus blossoms in three different colors: red, white and...

Plant 10'' apart in full to part sun. Blooms from early summer into fall! Enjoy masses of 3'' orange-red blooms tipped with yellow. Ideal for cut-flowers. For a rain garden. Highly drought tolerant.

The whole plant is harvested when in flower and distilled for its essential oil.The oil is used in perfumery, it is blended with sandalwood oil to produce 'attar genda' perfume. The growing plant repels whitefly and can be grown near tomatoes to keep...

* The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and as a result is becoming uncommon in the wild. The species is commonly known as Virginia snakeroot and is native to eastern North America, from Connecticut to southern...

Lanceolata contains phenylethanoids such as acteoside (verbascoside), cistanoside F, lavandulifolioside, plantamajoside and isoacteoside. Lanceolata is used frequently in tisanes and other herbal remedies.

* The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and as a result is becoming uncommon in the wild. The species is commonly known as Virginia snakeroot and is native to eastern North America, from Connecticut to southern...

* Orange flowers in late summer; grows well in dry soil; native to eastern U.S. * Pleurisy root is a bitter, nutty-flavoured tonic herb that increases perspiration, relieves spasms and acts as an expectorant.

* This is the white flowering form. * Liatris spicata , the dense blazing star or prairie gay feather , is an herbaceous perennial plant native throughout most of eastern North America .

* The plant is often cultivated for its showy flowers, and can sometimes be found outside its native range as an escape from cultivation. * The plant looks similar to the thistles but lacks their prickly characteristics .

Aromatic and somewhat bitter. This species is also occasionally known as Felon Herb , Chrysanthemum Weed , Wild Wormwood , Old uncle Henry , Sailor's Tobacco , Naughty Man , Old Man or St. John's Plant (not to be confused with St John's wort ).

* 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.

* This heirloom variety matures in about 80-90 days but some stems can be cut before maturity. * Chives ( Allium schoenoprasum ) are the smallest species of the onion family Alliaceae * Allium schoenoprasum is also the only species of Allium native to...

Edible Uses: Condiment; Tea. This type of mint has a square stem with flowers that are 1/4 to 1/2 inch long and white with purple/violet to pink spots. Young leaves - raw, have a mint-like flavour, they make an aromatic flavouring in salads.

The flowers of this large plant are not typically pea-like. Obtusifolia) and Coffee Senna (S. Marilandica) is a more southern species with fewer flowers and bigger leaflets. * Clusters of light yellow to orange flowers atop a sparsely branched perennial...

They are used like broccoli. * Asclepias syriaca , commonly called Common Milkweed , Butterfly flower , Silkweed , Silky Swallow-wort , Virginia Silkweed , is a herbaceous plant species.

Although the Sweet William is a perennial species, it is quite short-lived and degenerates after its second year. * The popular old-fashioned flower; likes limey soil; native to Russia and China.

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 .

* Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever, coughs, womb prolapse and malaria. * It is native to tropical Africa and southern India.

* Its height of 10-18 inches makes it ideal for the front or closer portion of the meadow. * 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...

* It is a highly aromatic and flavorful herb with culinary and medicinal uses and, along with the similar-tasting anise, is one of the primary ingredients of absinthe. * Fennel has a long history of herbal use and is a commonly used household remedy,...

To learn more click here . Wild Bergamot is the 2013 Notable Native from the Herb Society of America. Use as fresh or dried cutflower. Provide full to most of a day of sun and good air circulation to prevent powdery mildew.

The Compass Plant is native to much of the central and eastern US. The dark green, deeply dissected foliage of the Compass Plant was used as a compass as the large leaves generally point north and south.

Tall perennial grass with drooping branches bearing widely spaced reddish-purple spikelets. * Purpletop ( Tridens flavus ), also Red Top and Greasegrass , is a large, robust perennial bunchgrass, native to North America.

The flowers are fragrant and range in colour from pink to mauve, sometimes with a white base; they are produced in early summer on panicles 4-25 cm long and are attractive to bees, butterflies, and birds.

These Butterfly Bush hybrids can be pruned back to 12-24" in late winter/early spring to help promote health and vigor as well as to rejuvenate older plants. It is known to have escaped in several other states - California, South Carolina, Pennsylvania,...

The blooms are borne continuously from late spring to fall. Deep violet flowers hang like grapes from this upright to arching shrub. An unusual variety. Buddlejas are considered invasive in some areas, please consult your local state offices before purchasing.

This exciting new day-length neutral and thusly free flowering Black-Eyed Susan was discovered at Dupont Nursery near Plaquemine, Louisiana and is sure to bring in the butterflies and pollinators as well as providing color all summer.