Butterfly Attracting Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Minnesota

* Use Ornamental: Showy, Ground cover Conspicuous Flowers: yes Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Pipevine swallowtail butterfly. It is used in a number of proprietary medicines for treating skin, circulatory and kidney disorders.

Will start blooming this summer and have plenty of brilliant flowers for cutting as well as outdoor decoration. It is a strong field-grown plant. Drought resistant, attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, fragrant, for a rain garden, deer resistant and...

* The flowers are often used for dried flower displays. Blooms late summer to early fall. * 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...

The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2-3 cm broad. Its main use in present day herbalism is for relieving the pain and inflammation of pleurisy. It was much used by the North American Indians and acquired a reputation as a heal-all...

An infusion is used internally as a blood purifier and externally for treating cuts, burns and bruises. The fresh or dried flowering plant can be used, with or without the roots. * The whole plant is astringent and mildly diuretic.

* It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or biennial but will self seed. * It tolerates a wide range of soil types and will grow in full sun or partial shade.

Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. The leaves are long-stalked and uniquely divided into two leaflets about 1 1/2 inches long. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels,...

It is perennial so will continue to supply fresh chives for years to come. * Used in cooking, on baked potatoes, and in salads ; flowers rose to rosy purple. * This heirloom variety matures in about 80-90 days but some stems can be cut before maturity.

They are sticky hairy above, and white woolly below.Atop each stem is an almost perfectly spherical inflorescence up to 6 cm in diameter, packed with blue-gray disc florets . * It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich...

* Tolerant of constant cutting, this plant is often grown in lawns. * It succeeds on shallow chalky soils. * This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown.

However it is commonly cultivated in gardens away from its native range. * Primula denticulata , commonly known as Drumstick primrose or the Himalayan Primrose is a species of primrose that is native to moist alpine regions and Afghanistan to China .

Beebalm is the natural source of the antiseptic thymol, the primary active ingredient in modern commercial mouthwash formulas. * This hardy perennial plant grows to 0.7-1.5 m in height, with the stems square in cross-section.

* Tolerant of constant cutting, this plant is often grown in lawns. * It succeeds on shallow chalky soils. * This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown.

* The popular old-fashioned flower; likes limey soil; native to Russia and China. * Dianthus barbatus ( Sweet William ) is a species of Dianthus native to the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians and the Balkans , with...

* It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or biennial but will self seed. * It tolerates a wide range of soil types and will grow in full sun or partial shade.

The perennial's hairy, clasping leaves are arranged densely on its stout stems. Showy, bright, rose-purple flowers with orange-yellow centers bloom in profusion at the tips of the leafy branches.

* The yellow rays are strongly downturned and the disk is dark brown. The basal leaves are long and slender or very narrowly lanceolate. Flower stalks are sturdy and straight, with solitary terminal flowers, and are smooth or slightly hairy.

A vigorous clump forming perennial common to stream banks and moist areas but will do fine in average garden soils. Along with 'Herbstonne', the Sweet Coneflower is one of the latest to flower.

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

Extremely hardy, they thrive in any garden with little care. 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,...

A perennial which may freeze to the ground in winter in the cooler portions of its range. Drought tolerant once established, Wedelia revels in the heat and sun creating a dense 8-12" high mass of foliage, stems and flowers.

Inspiration Passionvine, like most other root hardy tropicals, should be established in the garden after the danger of frost/freeze has passed and soil temperatures have begun to warm.

* The plant prefers moderate moisture, as well as sandy and well-drained soil and full sun. * Gomphocarpus physocarpus is a food of the caterpillars of Danaus butterflies, including the monarch butterfly.

Both are dried for later use. The leaves area safe and effective cathartic. The root is cardiac and febrifuge. The leaves are harvested before and during flowering, the pods are harvested when fully ripe in the autumn.

Plant 10-12” apart in full sun. Great for cut flowers. 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 exciting color of...

What a discovery that must've been! Homestead Verbena was discovered by Dr. Allan Armitage and Dr. Michael Dirr on an old homestead in Georgia. An old and reliable perennial Verbena that produces large clusters of deep purple blooms from spring to fall.

This species is native to most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains , excluding the drier parts of the Prairies . * The latex in the stems is a suitable replacement for chicle and can be made into a chewing gum.