Butterfly Attracting Plant Shade Tolerant Plant For Sale In Amarillo

* Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff.

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 rocks; 600-1900 m.

Grows 6-8' tall. Drought and deer resistant. It is an excellent attractant for butterflies and hummingbirds. Panicles grow up to 10'' and feature raspberry and butterscotch yellow florets beginning in summer and lasting into fall.

* Lonicera xylosteum , commonly known as Fly honeysuckle , European Fly Honeysuckle , Dwarf Honeysuckle or Fly Woodbine is a deciduous shrub. It is one of two honeysuckles native to Britain, the other being the Common Honeysuckle ( Lonicera periclymenum...

* Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff.

It is highly valued for posts and fencing rails, and is also used for interior finishes, cabinet work etc. It is easily raised from seeds which germinate early in the first season.

* Fruits are sour and usually not consumed raw by humans, but may be cooked for use in the preparation of wine, jelly and pies. Pubens (native to North America) was known as American red elder.

It has sharply-toothed, lance-shaped green leaves and bears large, showy, bright golden yellow trumpet-shaped flowers . The plant produces pods containing yellow seeds with papery wings.

* 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...

* The blossoms have been used in the treatment of measles. * The fruit is a bright red or sometimes purple drupe containing 3 to 5 seeds. The fruits are popular with birds, who distribute the seeds.

* This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown. * A drought resistant plant once established.

* The small lavender flowers have a sweet flavour and can be eaten in salads or used as a garnish. In Eurasian herbalism, this plant has a long history of use as a febrifuge. Tolerant of dry chalk soils, it also succeeds in maritime gardens.

* Plant forming huge clumps with white or grayish spherical flowers 2-3" across, in late summer; rough, thistley foliage, dark green, good for the back of a large border. * This is a glandular, woolly perennial which approaches a maximum height of two...

It blooms from early summer until frost. Great cut flower. Bloom: July-September. Grow 2-3' tall. Drought tolerant, attracts butterflies and hummbingbirds, for a rain garden. Black-eyed Susans are ideal for sunny borders, along walls, by driveways or...

* The berries which are small drupes are purple. The fruit provides food for wild life. The fruits grow closely together in large clusters. * The berries are bitter and are unfit for culinary use.

Rose of Sharon is lovely all through the growing season. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. In mid-summer it bursts into bloom when little else is blooming and continues to flower through fall.

Grandiflorum was designated the provincial emblem of Ontario in 1937 (Flora Emblem Act). Grandiflorum is a perennial that grows from a short rhizome and produces a single, showy white flower atop a whorl of three leaves.

* This is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub or small tree. * Fast grower especially when young. * The plant is now also widely grown as an ornamental around the world. The species is under second-class national protection in China.

* Depending on the growing conditions, live oaks vary from the shrubby to large and spreading: typical open-grown trees reach 15 meters (50 feet) in height, but may span nearly 50 meters.

* Lonicera xylosteum , commonly known as Fly honeysuckle , European Fly Honeysuckle , Dwarf Honeysuckle or Fly Woodbine is a deciduous shrub. It is one of two honeysuckles native to Britain, the other being the Common Honeysuckle ( Lonicera periclymenum...

* Orange flowers in late summer; grows well in dry soil; native to eastern U.S. * Pleurisy root is a bitter, nutty-flavoured tonic herb that increases perspiration, relieves spasms and acts as an expectorant.

Attract both butterflies and hummingbirds with their delightful scent. Aromatic gray-green foliage. Plant in full sun. Pretty lavender-blue flowers bloom all the way through summer.

* The Tecate cypress is the only plant on which the rare Thorne's Hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus thornei) lays its eggs. * Cupressus forbesii is native to montane chaparral and woodlands habitats in the western Peninsular Ranges.

* The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use. * Tian Nan Xing has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years and is valued especially for its beneficial affect upon the chest.

Plant 2' apart. It blooms continuously from June to August. Drought resistant, attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, fragrant, for a rain garden, deer resistant and great for cut flowers.

* A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads. * 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...

* Templetonia is a dryland shrub that grows 3-7 feet tall. It is covered in red flowers in the winter and spring. The genus is named in honour of John Templeton, an Irish naturalist and botanist.