Butterfly Attracting Plant Seeds For Sale In Elk Grove

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

* 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 .

Europe, Caucasus, western Siberia. A homeopathic remedy is made from the plant. It is used as a blood purifier and as a treatment for eczema and other skin disorders. * Blue, pinky-blue, lilac, or lavenderish flowers 1 1/4" wide atop 3' stems; native...

A fast-growing tree, especially in its first few years from seed. * A small tree with compound leaves, white flowers in clusters to 4", 1/4" orange-red fruit; native to northern China.

* The fresh leaves are chewed for their refreshing taste and to relieve thirst. * Eriodictyon californicum is a shrub growing one to three meters tall, typically found in clonal stands.

It is native to Europe and western Asia . * If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer. * Echinops ritro is a species of globe thistle .

* 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. * Easily grown in a good, well-drained ordinary garden soil in a sunny position.

Echinacea paradoxa is native to Missouri , Arkansas , Oklahoma , and Texas , and is listed as threatened in Arkansas. * Echinacea paradoxa ( Bush's purple coneflower , Yellow Coneflower ) is a perennial species of flowering plant in the genus Echinacea...

Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang. * Trees, 6-20 m tall. Bark and branchlets grayish black. Trunk to 30 cm d.b.h. or more.

Pedicel 0-3 mm, glabrous or pubescent. Panicles erect, lateral, congested or lax, 4-16(-20) × 3-8(-10) cm. Capsule obovate-elliptic, ovate, to oblong-lanceolate, 0.7-1.5(-2) cm, smooth.

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. * A decoction of the leaves has been used in the treatment of influenza.

A tea from the leaves is used as a highly effective cough medicine. * Plantago lanceolata is a species of genus Plantago known by the common names ribwort plantain, English plantain, buckhorn plantain, narrowleaf plantain, ribleaf and lamb's tongue.

The species is commonly known as Virginia snakeroot and is native to eastern North America, from Connecticut to southern Michigan and south to Texas and Florida. * The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and...

* It is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing 30 to 70 centimeters tall with many large serrated leaves around the base of the stem on winged petioles. It has a fringe of 20 to 30 white ray florets around a center of many densely packed yellow disc florets.

* A member of the mint family; many small flowers on short spikes, usually blue but rarely pink, purple, or white; forms a dense mounded plant; used in cooking; aromatic; full sun, dry soil; native to southern Europe, Caucasus, Iran, Turkey.

* A member of the mint family; many small flowers on short spikes, usually blue but rarely pink, purple, or white; forms a dense mounded plant; used in cooking; aromatic; full sun, dry soil; native to southern Europe, Caucasus, Iran, Turkey.

The flowers of this large plant are not typically pea-like. Southern Wild Senna (S. Marilandica) is a more southern species with fewer flowers and bigger leaflets. * Clusters of light yellow to orange flowers atop a sparsely branched perennial or in axils...

* It is a perennial plant sometimes found in acidic bogs , for example in the Portlethen Moss , Scotland. * A drought resistant plant once established. * Tolerant of constant cutting, this plant is often grown in lawns.

* 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.

In the United States it may also be known as "Silver Dollars," also because of the seed pods. * A good bee and butterfly plant. It has large, pointed oval leaves with marked serrations.

* 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.

The foliage is bright-green and glossy. * A small delicate shrub with 1" white bell-shaped flowers in small clusters from the leaf axils, in early or mid summer; bright green flowers; grayish fruit in fall; prefers moist, acid soil; a good garden shrub...

Pedicel 0-3 mm, glabrous or pubescent. Panicles erect, lateral, congested or lax, 4-16(-20) × 3-8(-10) cm. Capsule obovate-elliptic, ovate, to oblong-lanceolate, 0.7-1.5(-2) cm, smooth.

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

A fast-growing tree, especially in its first few years from seed. * A small tree with compound leaves, white flowers in clusters to 4", 1/4" orange-red fruit; native to northern China.

* In Great Britain it is most valuable in the south, though less successful in northern regions. It is found to succeed better when only the surface of the soil is stirred by the scarifier and harrow than when a plowing is given.

Common behaviors cats display when they sense the bruised leaves or stems of catnip are rubbing on the plant, rolling on the ground, pawing at it, licking it, and chewing it. This type of mint has a square stem with flowers that are 1/4 to 1/2 inch long...