Butterfly Attracting Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Westminster

* The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and as a result is becoming uncommon in the wild. It is used in a number of proprietary medicines for treating skin, circulatory and kidney disorders.

Charming 5'' purple daisy-like blooms with orange-brown raised centers. The Purple Coneflowers bloom from mid-summer to fall on 2-3 foot stems. Drought and deer resistant, attracts butterflies, great cut flower.

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 whole plant contains substances that are toxic to cockroaches.

Award winner! Black-eyed Susans have rich, golden yellow petals set off by bronze-black centers. Black-eyed Susans are ideal for sunny borders, along walls, by driveways or as a focal point in perennial bed.

* Senna marilandica , or Maryland Wild Senna , is a flowering plant in the United States . The seedpods can also be used and are milder but slower in their action. The leaves area safe and effective cathartic.

* Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent.

Choice one-year-old field-grown plants. It is an easy to grow perennial that spreads fast. They grow well in sun or light shade. Will bloom again in late summer if spring blossoms are cut off.

* The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and as a result is becoming uncommon in the wild. It is used in a number of proprietary medicines for treating skin, circulatory and kidney disorders.

The leaves of the plant are linear to lanceolate, 3-15 cm long and 0.3-3 cm broad, with a modified dentate, pinnately lobed margin; they give off a sweet odor, especially when crushed.

It also grows on damper ground . It differs from other similar species in that it has 4 lobed flowers, whereas Small Scabious and Field scabious have 5 lobes and hence it has been placed in a separate genus in the same family .

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.

Older leaves areused as a flavouring in cooked foods. Young leaves - raw, have a mint-like flavour, they make an aromatic flavouring in salads. Older leaves are used as a flavouring in cooked foods.

* The familiar yarrow from which many garden cultivars have been derived; grows in very poor soil in full sun. * Yarrow has also been used as a food, and was very popular as a vegetable in the 17th century.

Bark and branchlets grayish black. Trunk to 30 cm d.b.h. or more. Petiole 2-4.5 cm; leaf blade often purplish red when young, greenish when mature, cordate or triangular-orbicular, * Open or dense forests, mountain slopes, along valleys near roads, on...

* 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.

* If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer. Blooms late summer to early fall. * Unusual perennials with 2" spherical blue flowers in mid to late summer; the plant itself...

* Knautia arvensis , commonly known as Field Scabious , is a species in the genus Knautia . * The whole plant is astringent and mildly diuretic. The fresh or dried flowering plant can be used, with or without the roots.

* Succeeds in poor soils and on dry walls. Prefers a calcareous soil but tolerates mildly acid soils. * A very ornamental plant. * Easily grown in a good, well-drained ordinary garden soil in a sunny position.

* The plant is used for a variety of medicinal purposes and smoked by Native American groups. It is being investigated for use as a biofuel. Ingestion of the leaves can be fatal. It grows to heights of more than two meters.

Katie Blue Dwarf Mexican Petunia is a lovely dwarf perennial that produces loads of bluish purple trumpet shaped flowers tucked in among the dark green glossy foliage from spring to frost on a compact low mounding plant.

An unusual and uncommon native found growing along stream sides and woodlands that is most common in western Louisiana and eastern Texas but is also found in much of the southeast as well.

* 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 can reach 5-6' tall and has rough 4" long lance-shaped leaves.

* 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 .

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...

Turk's Cap are native to portions of the southern US although they have been passed around so much in southern gardens it may be hard to say just where anymore. In the northern portion of their range the Turk's Caps are die-back perennials that freeze...

Dislikes dry soils. * Succeeds in most reasonably good soils in an open sunny position. Tolerates light shade, though it fruits better in a sunny position. * A small tree with compound leaves, white flowers in clusters to 4", 1/4" orange-red fruit; native...

Dislikes dry soils. * Succeeds in most reasonably good soils in an open sunny position. Tolerates light shade, though it fruits better in a sunny position. * A small tree with compound leaves, white flowers in clusters to 4", 1/4" orange-red fruit; native...