Butterfly Attracting Plant Seeds For Sale In Joliet

It is a common weed of cultivated land. A mucilage from the seed coats is used as a fabric stiffener. It also contain the iridoid glycosides aucubin and catalpol. An extract of them has antibacterial properties.

* 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.

* The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and as a result is becoming uncommon in the wild. It merits consideration for cultivation in forest areas.

* Succeeds in poor soils and on dry walls. * Easily grown in a good, well-drained ordinary garden soil in a sunny position. * A very ornamental plant. * An annual with white, lilac, pink, maroon, and carmine flowers; easy from seed, they start flowering...

The naturalized variety is typically tubular, bright red, about 1.25 in (3.2 cm) long. Spreading growth to 12". Blooms from summer to autumn with red flowers up to 3/4" long. * The plant reaches 2 to 4 ft (0.61 to 1.2 m) in height, with many branches,...

Panicles erect, terminal, 5-30 × 3-18 cm; rachis, pedicel, and calyx villous or pubescent, occasionally subglabrous. Anthers yellow, inserted near or slightly below mouth of corolla tube.

* The shrub is known to be an occasional source of nutrition for wildlife and livestock. Conservation Plant Characteristics Eriodictyon californicum (Hook. * Eriodictyol is one of the 4 flavanones identified in this plant by the Symrise Corporation as...

* Celtis africana is a tree in the Cannabaceae family. It is commonly known as the White Stinkwood . This Hackberry produces a pale trunk and branches with green leaves . It can be indoors with much care but grows best outside.

* The plant is often cultivated for its showy flowers, and can sometimes be found outside its native range as an escape from cultivation. * Blooms are 4" in diameter and are held from May until June.

* Used in cooking, on baked potatoes, and in salads ; flowers rose to rosy purple. * Chives ( Allium schoenoprasum ) are the smallest species of the onion family Alliaceae * Allium schoenoprasum is also the only species of Allium native to both the New...

The plants have showy blooms in early to mid spring. * Hesperis matronalis grows 100 cm or taller, with multiple upright hairy stems. * A biennial with pretty four-petaled fragrant flowers in loose clusters, white to purplish and everything in between;...

Flowers are slightly fragrant. Flowers are mildly fragrant, and very attractive to butterflies, hummingbirds and bees. Spike-like flower clusters bloom from early summer to first frost.

Flower stalks are sturdy and straight, with solitary terminal flowers, and are smooth or slightly hairy. The basal leaves are long and slender or very narrowly lanceolate. * Echinacea paradoxa ( Bush's purple coneflower , Yellow Coneflower ) is a perennial...

* This upright annual herb grows to 20-50 cm tall, unbranched or branched only at the base. The banner of each flower does not sit upright, but folds forward. Only one cutting, however, can be obtained, as it does not shoot again after being mown.

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

Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Japan (Ryukyu Islands)]. * Native to forests; 100-800(-1600) m.

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

Aromatic and somewhat bitter. Their addition to the diet aids the digestion and so they are often used in small quantities as a flavouring, especially with fatty foods. They are also used to give colour and flavour to glutinous-rice dumplings (Mochi).

Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft. The leaves are long-stalked and uniquely divided into two leaflets about 1 1/2 inches long.

* The wood is hard and heavy, suitable for making furniture and other small articles. * Dark green shiny leaves, yellow, bronzy, and red in fall; 1/3" bright red fruit, good bird food; large shrub, can be trained as a small tree; susceptible to fireblight;...

* This species is grown as an ornamental and used for timber. * This is a lovely tree with fragrant red flowers in the spring and beautiful evergreen foliage.

The panicles often hang limply, which is how the plant got its common name; the clusters look as though they are nodding. * Syringa komarowii is a species of lilac native to central China, commonly called Nodding Lilac.

* Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever, coughs, womb prolapse and malaria. * It grows to a height of 3 metres and has whorls of striking lipped flowers, that are most commonly orange, but...

* It tolerates a wide range of soil types and will grow in full sun or partial shade. * Siberian Wallflower makes a dramatic vibrant addition to a wildflower meadow. * It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or...

I never knew about the Spicebush Swallowtail until recently though, thanks to the internet! I think I would grow these just to see the caterpillars! I'll be checking my plants next summer.

* Knautia arvensis , commonly known as Field Scabious , is a species in the genus Knautia . * Blue, pinky-blue, lilac, or lavenderish flowers 1 1/4" wide atop 3' stems; native to meadows and grassy hills, particularly on limestone; good for wild garden;...

* Senna hebecarpa ( American Senna or Wild Senna ) is an ornamental plant native to North America , specially Canada and the United States . * Clusters of light yellow to orange flowers atop a sparsely branched perennial or in axils of compound leaves.