Butterfly Attracting Plant Plant For Moist Soil For Sale In Houston

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. Giant Alaska Shasta Daisies make excellent cut flowers.

Plant 2' apart. Is especially effective in mass plantings -- ground covers, borders, and bed plantings. It is a strong field-grown plant. Drought resistant, attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, fragrant, for a rain garden, deer resistant and great for...

The upper stems are reddish or purplish. Leaves are large, long and sharply toothed. * Eutrochium fistulosum (Eupatorium fistulosum), also called Joe-Pye weed, Trumpetweed, or Purple thoroughwort, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native...

Outstanding when planted in full sun. Great cut flower. Butterfly Bush is a must for every late summer perennial garden. Grows 4-8' tall. Drought and deer resistant. Aptly named, the butterfly bush attracts loads of butterflies and is also a favorite...

* Thoroughwort is one of the most popular domestic medicines in North America where it is used in the treatment of influenza, colds, acute bronchitis, catarrh and skin diseases. The plant, however, should be used with some caution since large doses are...

They can also be blanched and used in salads. * The young shoots can be eaten cooked. * Spiny stems, leaves to 30" long, white flowers. * It is an upright deciduous small tree or shrub growing up to 6 m in height, native to eastern Russia , China , Korea...

* Trees have extensive root systems and are sometimes planted on the banks of streams in order to prevent erosion.

They can also be blanched and used in salads. * The young shoots can be eaten cooked. * Spiny stems, leaves to 30" long, white flowers. * It is an upright deciduous small tree or shrub growing up to 6 m in height, native to eastern Russia , China , Korea...

* Shiny reddish-brown or dark brown bark; often of shrubby habit; native to Rocky Mountains * The buds and twigs are used as a flavouring in stews * Betula occidentalis ( Water Birch , also known as Red Birch ) is a species of birch native to western...

* Lobelia cardinalis ( Cardinal Flower ) is a species of Lobelia native to the Americas , from southeastern Canada south through the eastern and southwestern United States , Mexico and Central America to northern Colombia .

Award winner! Black-eyed Susans have rich, golden yellow petals set off by bronze-black centers. Great cut flower. It blooms from early summer until frost. They are insect and disease free and resistant to drought and deer.

* Knautia arvensis , commonly known as Field Scabious , is a species in the genus Knautia . A homeopathic remedy is made from the plant. Europe, Caucasus, western Siberia. * Blue, pinky-blue, lilac, or lavenderish flowers 1 1/4" wide atop 3' stems; native...

* Sarracenia leucophylla , also known as the white pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia . Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World and inhabits moist and low-nutrient longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris ) savannas...

* Devil's club was widely employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes who used it especially for its pain-relieving properties. * In vitro studies showed that extracts of Devil's Club inhibit tuberculosis microbes.

The inner bark contains large quantities of a sticky slime that can be dried to a powder or made into a liquid. In particular, it is a gentle and effective remedy for irritated states of the mucous membranes of the chest, urinary tubules, stomach and...

* This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns.

* This is a very popular shade and street tree which is conical when young and ultimately forms a rounded canopy with a tall unbranched trunk. It is confined to acidic soils, and does not tolerate limestone , and grows at low altitudes from sea level...

A delicious carbonated beverage can be made from the boiled leaves. This species contains essential oils , tannins , gums and resins . The young shoots are used in making a refreshing cold drink.

* A variable evergreen of upright, rounded habit, with 1/2" white flowers in small clusters; 1" green or red berries; likes moist soil, part shade; emerging leaves bronzy to reddish, later leathery, dark green; leaves to 4" x 1 1/2", turning bronzy-red...

It is used medicinally and also makes a refreshing tea. * It is a medium-sized deciduous tree , typically reaching 15-25 m tall (exceptionally up to 39 m ), with a slender trunk usually under 40 cm diameter (exceptionally to 1 m diameter), and a crown...

* Serratula tinctoria , commonly known as Saw-wort , is a species in the genus Serratula . It is a native of Europe. * A fine yellow dye is obtained from the juice of the plant, it is very durable.

The flowers are inconspicuous, whitish to greenish-yellow, produced on slender peduncles 25 mm or more long; it is usually dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

* The seeds are very small but easy to harvest and very nutritious. They can also be sprouted and used in salads. * Amaranthus cruentus is a common flowering plant species that yields the nutritious staple amaranth grain .

Slender twigs are glabrous and silvery gray, with "numerous spur shoots", pointed lateral buds, and acuminate scales. Drupe fruits are red (or rarely yellow), shiny, and globose (spherical, or nearly so), with a diameter of 4-8mm.

* Native to western North America , from Washington east to western Montana and south to California. White alder ALRH2 Summary Duration Perennial Growth Habit Tree Native Status L48 (N) Federal T/E Status National Wetland Indicator FACW Morphology/Physiology...

* A bold perennial plant with upright, branching stems topped by yellow or orange-yellow daisylike flowers to 4", July-September; leaves to 10", hairy, serrated on the edges; grows in woodland clearings, in scrub, and along streams; likes rich moist soil,...

The uppermost part of the leaf is flared into a lid (the operculum), which prevents excess rain from entering the pitcher and diluting the digestive secretions within. * In spring, the plant produces small, bright red flowers with 5-fold symmetry.