Butterfly Attracting Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Shreveport

* So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure.

These plants are deer and drought resistant. The Mixed Butterfly Bush has fragrant 8-10'' flower spikes and grows 4-8' tall. One of the most prolific sources of massed color, blooms from July to frost.

Growing up to a meter tall, it lives in zones 4 to 9 in moist to wet soils. It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States. It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer.

Enjoy astonishing numbers of snowy, gold-centered blooms every June and July. It is an easy to grow perennial that spreads fast. Choice one-year-old field-grown plants. Will bloom again in late summer if spring blossoms are cut off.

A mucilage from the seed coats is used as a fabric stiffener. The leaves contain mucilage, tannin and silic acid. A tea from the leaves is used as a highly effective cough medicine.

* Artemisia vulgaris ( mugwort or common wormwood ) is one of several species in the genus Artemisia which have common names that include the word mugwort. They are also used to give colour and flavour to glutinous-rice dumplings (Mochi).

It is used as a blood purifier and as a treatment for eczema and other skin disorders. * The whole plant is astringent and mildly diuretic. The fresh or dried flowering plant can be used, with or without the roots.

This spectacular cultivar of butterfly bush is valued for its intense, deeply colored wine-red flowers. Drought tolerant. Plant in full to partial sun. The fragrant, long panicles are showy from June to September and attracts loads of butterflies and...

* White flowers in panicles, midsummer; a handsome shrub with dark green 3" leaves, compact and very adaptable regarding sun and moisture, doesn't mind drought * A refreshing and stimulating tea is made from the dried leaves, it is a good substitute for...

Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies. It is commonly grown in gardens for its showy purple flowers (pink or white in some cultivars). * This is the white flowering form. Native to moist prairies and sedge meadows.

Plant 2' apart. To cover steep slopes, poor soil trouble areas, stream or pond banks where erosion control is needed, there's no better and prettier ground cover to use than House of Wesley's Carefree Beauty Crownvetch.

Only use young leaves (see the notes above on toxicity) and wear stout gloves when harvesting them to prevent being stung. More recently, companies in Austria, Germany, and Italy have started to produce commercial nettle textiles.

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,...

The seeds, leaves and roots can be used, but the seeds are most active medicinally and are the part normally used. In many gardens it self sows freely. It grows well in sandy soils and is drought tolerant once established.

* Herb Hyssop ( Hyssopus officinalis aka Hyssopus decumbens ) is an herbaceous plant of the genus Hyssopus native to Southern Europe , the Middle East , and the region surrounding the Caspian Sea .

This is a tough and easy pinewoods native plant that is great for butterflies and pollinators. Flowers begin in May and may continue through August. This is considered to be the Southernmost of the Echinaceas making it an excellent addition to the perennial...

Another of the garden friendly clump forming Goldenrods, Sweet Goldenrod makes a nice addition to the garden, as well as in natural areas and along roadsides. The flowers and foliage, fresh or dried, is often used to make a very nice herbal tea, as a...

* Asclepias tuberosa is a species of milkweed native to eastern North America . Its main use in present day herbalism is for relieving the pain and inflammation of pleurisy. * Orange flowers in late summer; grows well in dry soil; native to eastern U.S

Provide a well-drained soil with full to mostly sun for the best results. Batface Cuphea, or Georgia Scarlet Batface Cuphea, is a tough and reliable low mounding perennial which blooms from late spring to frost.

* A very ornamental plant, its flowers are very attractive to butterflies and moths. Although the Sweet William is a perennial species, it is quite short-lived and degenerates after its second year.

A caterpillar host for the Gulf Fritillary, Zebra Longwing, and other Heliconian butterflies. We generally wait until the fruits become yellow (in yellow fruited cultivars) and wrinkled and have fallen from the vine.

Grow 2-3' tall. Black-eyed Susans are ideal for sunny borders, along walls, by driveways or as a focal point in perennial bed. Bloom: July-September. They are insect and disease free and resistant to drought and deer.

1/4" soft red blooms adorn the long spike-like bloom stems from spring to frost. Porterweeds are likely the number one favorite nectar plant for butterfly gardeners and surely for the butterflies themselves.

Salvias are considered the #1 plant for Hummingbirds with their tubular flowers designed for pollination by these amazing flyers. Scarlet Sage is the number one most recommended Salvia species for hummingbirds! A perennial in mild winter climates and...

Porterweed is known to reseed particularly in mild winter climates. I would be surprised to find a plant that produces a more continuous supply of nectar rich flowers from summer to frost, even most Lantana has to catch its breath from time to time during...

* Succeeds in poor soils and on dry walls. Prefers a calcareous soil but tolerates mildly acid soils. * A very ornamental plant. * An annual with white, lilac, pink, maroon, and carmine flowers; easy from seed, they start flowering 6 weeks after sowing...

Deadhead to prevent reseeding. Where temperatures drop below freezing it is more likely to be deciduous. A host plant to Sulphur butterflies and nectar source for a variety of pollinators.