Butterfly Attracting Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Nebraska

Bloom: July-September. 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.

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

Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff.

Outstanding when planted in full sun. Butterfly Bush is a must for every late summer perennial garden. Aptly named, the butterfly bush attracts loads of butterflies and is also a favorite of hummingbirds.

A very ornamental plant, when fully dormant it is hardy to about -15°c, though the young growth in spring can be damaged by late frosts. * Holodiscus discolor is a shrub of western North America that is commonly known as ocean spray , creambush or ironwood...

* Eriodictyon californicum is a specific Papilio eurymedon butterfly food and habitat plant. An extract of the leaves is used as a flavouring in baked goods, sweets, ice cream and soft drinks.

* 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 .

* Modern research has shown that the plant increases the white blood cell count and is of value when used to prevent bone marrow loss in cancer chemotherapy patients, it also has potential in the treatment of AIDS.

It has become naturalised in many temperate areas, including the Americas and Australasia as an escape from cultivation. * Trifolium pratense is the national flower of Denmark and the state flower of Vermont.

The flowers have same fragrance as honeysuckle vines. You can't beat this radiant pink Honeysuckle for a tall screen of background hedge. Quite hardy and disease resistant. Later, brilliant red berries appear that last all summer and throughout the winter.

Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies. * Liatris spicata , the dense blazing star or prairie gay feather , is an herbaceous perennial plant native throughout most of eastern North America .

The basal leaves are long and slender or very narrowly lanceolate. Echinacea paradoxa is native to Missouri , Arkansas , Oklahoma , and Texas , and is listed as threatened in Arkansas.

* Ratibida columnifera , commonly known as Upright Prairie Coneflower or Mexican Hat , is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae , that is native to much of North America .

You'll enjoy this old-fashioned favorite that bears an abundance of large, hibiscus blossoms in three different colors: red, white and blue. An excellent source for cut flowers. Extremely hardy, they thrive in any garden with little care.

Deer resistant. 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 crimson red.

With most passionflowers the 5 stamens (pollen producing glands) arch downward once they are ready to release their pollen (and nectar) then on the next flower, hopefully, the 3 stigmas will arch downward once they are ready to receive pollen thus doing...

Attracts butterflies, bees, and a variety of other pollinators. In midsummer it produces the fragrant, nectar rich yellow flowers atop sturdy 2-3' high stems. There is reported to be a sister species, E.

* Easily grown in a good, well-drained ordinary garden soil in a sunny position. * An annual with white, lilac, pink, maroon, and carmine flowers; easy from seed, they start flowering 6 weeks after sowing and continue until frost; native to Europe.

If your dwarf Mexican Petunias get too tall or leggy just cut them back to a few inches above the ground and they will quickly regrow and soon return to flowering. Chi-Chi Dwarf Pink Mexican Petunia is a lovely dwarf perennial that produces loads of pink...

A very ornamental plant, when fully dormant it is hardy to about -15°c, though the young growth in spring can be damaged by late frosts. * Holodiscus discolor is a shrub of western North America that is commonly known as ocean spray , creambush or ironwood...

2-3" bright yellow sunflower-like flowers are held on 3'H branching sturdy stems from late spring to fall. It is quite drought tolerant once established and seems to prefer well-drained soils.

A must have perennial! Early Bird Gold Rudbeckia produces wave after wave of bright golden yellow, 3-4" daisies from late spring to fall on a nicely branching plant. Rudbeckia fulgida is native to much of the central and eastern United States.

* The Tecate cypress is the only plant on which the rare Thorne's Hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus thornei) lays its eggs. * Cupressus forbesii, now reclassified by some as Hesperocyparis forbesii, and with the common names Tecate cypress or Forbes' cypress,...

Considered by many to be the best of the Mountainmints, Clustered Mountainmint produces an abundance of tiny whitish tubular blooms touched with purple or lavender in tight clusters held above the attractive bluish white bracts.

The Stigmaphyllon has caudate or heart shaped leaf bases where the Mascagnia macroptera does not among other characteristics but this is the quickest way to tell them apart at a glance.

Young plants were harvested by Native Americans and used as a cooked plant in spring when other food plants were scarce. * Direct sowing: The seedbed should have a loose and fine structure, but should be reconsolidated using a packer roller imminently...

Wonderfully fragrant of licorice or anise when bruised or dried, Sweet Goldenrod produces medium to large pyramidal clusters of golden yellow flowers in summer that are excellent for attracting pollinators and other beneficials.