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It also lowers the blood pressure by dilating the blood vessels. This plant is native to Europe, but is now widespread throughout most of the United States as a common weed. * Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in both Chinese and Western...

* The flowers and leaves are diaphoretic, diuretic and rubefacient. It is used in the treatment of rheumatism and skin eruptions. Caution is advised since this is a poisonous plant.

* Thistley plants for full sun and poor dry soil; the half-inch flower heads, also like thistles, can be a fine metallic blue or blue purple; flowers in mid to late summer; in rich soil the plants grow too fast and need staking; may make a big clump of...

* The unopened flower buds are eaten cooked. * The sprouted seeds can be eaten. They are used like broccoli. * Asclepias syriaca , commonly called Common Milkweed , Butterfly flower , Silkweed , Silky Swallow-wort , Virginia Silkweed , is a herbaceous...

* Thistley plants for full sun and poor dry soil; the half-inch flower heads, also like thistles, can be a fine metallic blue or blue purple; flowers in mid to late summer; in rich soil the plants grow too fast and need staking; may make a big clump of...

It can be dried, ground into a powder then used in making cakes etc. This shrub reaches between one and two meters in height. The fruit can also be used for making jelly and cider.

Thick growing and winter hardy. Thrives in moist soil conditions, Prefers medium fertility soils with a pH between 6.0 - 6.5. Plants produce uncertain numbers of 4 leafed clovers considered lucky.

* In milder climates, borage will bloom continuously for most of the year. * The flowers are rich in a sweet nectar and are very attractive to bees. * An edible blue dye can be obtained from the flowers.

* Bright yellow flowers.

It is the type species of the subgenus Padus with flowers in racemes , which are hermaphroditic and pollinated by bees and flies; it is a deciduous small tree or large shrub 8–16 m tall.

It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant. * A semi-double form of the species said to come more or less true from seed; yellow flowers; native to U.S. east This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in...

* In Great Britain it is most valuable in the south, though less successful in northern regions. Only one cutting, however, can be obtained, as it does not shoot again after being mown.

The colour is yellow when mixed with alum. A homeopathic remedy is made from the flowering plant. The root is harvested in early autumn and dried for later use. The dried flower heads were attached to spindles, wheels, or cylinders, sometimes called teasel...

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

Common names include common sneezeweed and large-flowered sneezeweed. * The plant contains helenalin, a compound that has shown significant anti-tumour activity. * Bright flowers of daisyish form, yellow ray petals and yellow-brown centers, from July...

It has many commercial uses. It grows in forests near the coast on moderate to fertile soils in a protected, sunny position. * Tallowwood is so named owing to the greasy feel of the wood when cut.

* Bark of mature trees is fissured, prominently ridged and pale gray-brown. * The leaves are very similar in shape to those of Paulownia tomentosa, having three lobes (two are abruptly truncated on either edge, with a third, central, slightly acute, pointed...

It also lowers the blood pressure by dilating the blood vessels. This plant is native to Europe, but is now widespread throughout most of the United States as a common weed. * Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in both Chinese and Western...

* In Great Britain it is most valuable in the south, though less successful in northern regions. Only one cutting, however, can be obtained, as it does not shoot again after being mown.

The flowers are pink, borne in summer. * Rosa palustris is a shrub with alternate, pinnately compound leaves , on thorny stems.

It is also used in treating kidney diseases. It is commonly grown in gardens for its showy purple flowers (pink or white in some cultivars). Native to moist prairies and sedge meadows.

* The name Rosa arkansana comes from the Arkansas River in Colorado. * Wild Prairie Rose is the state flower of the U.S. states of Iowa and North Dakota. * 1" flowers in large or small clusters.

* The young shoots can be eaten cooked. A pea-like flavour, they are very appetizing. Tips of older shoots are cooked like spinach. * Swamp milkweed is an upright, 100- to 150-centimeter (39- to 59-inches) tall plant, growing from thick, fleshy, white...

* Leaves to 6"; branches brown and fuzzy; small clusters of 7-10 flowers; rounded fruit; native to northeast Asia.

The leaves are opposite on the square stems, 6–15 cm long and 3–8 cm broad, and dark green with reddish leaf veins and a coarsely toothed margin; they are glabrous or sparsely pubescent above, with spreading hairs below.

* 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 species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China.

* A very ornamental plant, the flowers are very attractive to bees. * Half-hardy annual. * Succeeds in a sunny sheltered position in most soils but prefers one that is poor and light.