Butterfly Attracting Plant Seeds For Sale In Lansing

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

* Centaurea americana , commonly called American Starthistle or American Basketflower , is an annual native to the southern central United States and northeastern Mexico. The plant can reach 5-6' tall and has rough 4" long lance-shaped leaves.

The cultivar 'Tallhedge (syn 'Columnaris') is very suitable for this purpose. * Plants can be grown as an informal (untrimmed) hedge, though they are also amenable to trimming. * This variety is upright growing, very columnar.

* The leaves lose their flavour if the are cooked for any length of time and so are best used raw or added to cooked dishes only a few minutes before the cooking is complete. * In Canada, dill is a favorite herb to accompany poached salmon.

Prefers a calcareous soil but tolerates mildly acid soils. * 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.

* The yellow rays (petals) droop downward and are arranged around a grayish-brown cone. Tall, summer perennial with a somewhat branched stem. It is hardy and not easily outcompeted by other plants.

* Echinops ritro is a species of globe thistle . Blooms late summer to early fall. * If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer.

* Aristolochia serpentaria is a species of perennial flowering plant in the Aristolochiaceae (birthwort) family. It is used in a number of proprietary medicines for treating skin, circulatory and kidney disorders.

* 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

* Primula denticulata , commonly known as Drumstick primrose or the Himalayan Primrose is a species of primrose that is native to moist alpine regions and Afghanistan to China . However it is commonly cultivated in gardens away from its native range.

* The leaves lose their flavour if the are cooked for any length of time and so are best used raw or added to cooked dishes only a few minutes before the cooking is complete. * In Canada, dill is a favorite herb to accompany poached salmon.

* Plants can be grown as an informal hedge. * Parent has white flowers. * The bark or leaves have been chewed by children as a treatment for sore mouth. * An essential oil used in perfumery is obtained from the flowers.

Due to its properties as an antiseptic , cough reliever , and expectorant , it is commonly used as an aromatic herb and medicinal plant . A strongly aromatic flavour,somewhat like a cross between sage and mint.

* Succeeds in most reasonably good soils in an open sunny position. A fast-growing tree, especially in its first few years from seed. Tolerates light shade, though it fruits better in a sunny position.

* Mostly solitary rose-pink flowers, 1 1/2-2 1/2'; round hips to about 1", bright red; native to the Rocky Mountains, California to Alaska. The fruits ( hips ) of Nootka rose are somewhat bitter but edible.

* 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; native to Japan, Korea, China.

* Syringa komarowii is a species of lilac native to central China, commonly called Nodding Lilac. * Lilac flowers in nodding terminal clusters to 6"; leaves to 6"; native to China.

Seed pods maintain lime-green color and balloon-like form when dried. Do not allow to become pot bound at any time as plants will deteriorate rapidly. White flowers with lavender-colored centers develop into large, papery seed pods.

Many authorities have now grouped both of these red elders together under the name of Sambucus racemosa. * Historically, Sambucus racemosa (native to Europe and Asia) was commonly known as European red elder and the very similar Sambucus pubens also known...

* Mostly solitary rose-pink flowers, 1 1/2-2 1/2'; round hips to about 1", bright red; native to the Rocky Mountains, California to Alaska. The fruits ( hips ) of Nootka rose are somewhat bitter but edible.

* Red clover is commonly used to make a sweet-tasting herbal tea. Trifolium pratense is used in traditional medicine of India as deobstruent, antispasmodic, expectorant, sedative, anti-inflammatory and antidermatosis agent.

* The plant reaches 2 to 4 ft (0.61 to 1.2 m) in height, with many branches, and a spread of about 2.5 ft (0.76 m). Spreading growth to 12". The naturalized variety is typically tubular, bright red, about 1.25 in (3.2 cm) long.

* Cupressus forbesii, now reclassified by some as Hesperocyparis forbesii, and with the common names Tecate cypress or Forbes' cypress, is a species of cypress native to southwestern North America.

Conservation Plant Characteristics Eriodictyon californicum (Hook. * This species of shrub is used for revegetating damaged or disturbed lands, such as overgrazed rangeland. America where it is considered to be especially useful as an expectorant.

Many authorities have now grouped both of these red elders together under the name of Sambucus racemosa. * Historically, Sambucus racemosa (native to Europe and Asia) was commonly known as European red elder and the very similar Sambucus pubens also known...

* The yellow rays (petals) droop downward and are arranged around a grayish-brown cone. Tall, summer perennial with a somewhat branched stem. It is hardy and not easily outcompeted by other plants.

* It is native to France and Spain but it can be found growing wild in other parts of the world as an introduced species and sometimes a garden escapee. It has a fringe of 20 to 30 white ray florets around a center of many densely packed yellow disc florets.