Honey Bee Food Herbaceous Plant For Sale In El Paso

* The name of this species is based on the cultivated form, the true wild form is A. * Succeeds in ordinary garden soil, preferring a moist but not wet soil and a sunny position. * Plants seem to be immune to the predations of rabbits.

Arctium lappa is the main species used, though this species has similar properties. * The seed contains arctiin, this excites the central nervous system producing convulsions an increase in respiration and later paralysis.

It has been widely introduced worldwide as a pasture crop, and is now also common in most grassy areas of North America and New Zealand. * White clover ( Trifolium repens ) is a species of clover native to Europe , North Africa , and West Asia .

The plant often self-sows. * It is also attractive to hoverflies (family Syrphidae), which are useful as biological pest control agents because they eat aphids and other pests. * Seed propagation- sow in situ in late spring or late summer.

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...

The many inflorescences have closely spaced whorls of small flowers with brightly colored calyces. Spreading growth to 24in. * There are numerous cultivars widely grown in horticulture.

* The unopened flower buds are eaten cooked. It is in the genus Asclepias , making it a type of milkweed . * Asclepias syriaca , commonly called Common Milkweed , Butterfly flower , Silkweed , Silky Swallow-wort , Virginia Silkweed , is a herbaceous plant...

* A perennial mint with lemon-scented foliage and clusters of small white flowers in whorls in the leaf axils; the leaves are used in cooking--teas, soups--toilet water, soaps, and medicine; sun or part shade, grows well in dry sites; native to southern...

* Eupatorium perfoliatum or (Common) Boneset is a common perennial plant native to the Eastern United States and Canada , with a range from Nova Scotia to Florida , as well as from Louisiana and Texas through North Dakota .

Despite its Latin name, which means German or Germanic Medlar, it is indigenous to southwest Asia and also southeastern Europe , mostly the Black Sea coasts of modern Turkey, and was introduced to Germany by the Romans .

* Perennial; small yellow flowers; source of a golden-yellow dye. * A refreshing tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves, flowers and stems. It can be drunk hot or cold. It was formerly very popular either on its own or added to China tea, having a...

* 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...

* A perennial mint with lemon-scented foliage and clusters of small white flowers in whorls in the leaf axils; the leaves are used in cooking--teas, soups--toilet water, soaps, and medicine; sun or part shade, grows well in dry sites; native to southern...

For these reasons, it is used as a green manure crop. Trifolium pratense is used in traditional medicine of India as deobstruent, antispasmodic, expectorant, sedative, anti-inflammatory and antidermatosis agent.

* It was named in honor of the German naturalist Traugott Gerber, a friend of Carolus Linnaeus. It is a member of the Gerbera genus . Start seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost date.

In some middle-eastern countries, Marjoram is synonymous with Oregano, and there the names Sweet Marjoram and Knotted Marjoram are used to distinguish it from other plants of the genus Origanum .

* Bright yellow flowers.

The foliage is upright growing or horizontally orientated, with leaves having narrowly winged petioles or being unwinged. The 5–45 cm long and 1–10 cm wide leaves are oblanceolate, oblong, or obovate in shape with the bases gradually narrowing to...

* Its height of 10-18 inches makes it ideal for the front or closer portion of the meadow. * It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or biennial but will self seed.

It can typically be found in forest margins, fields and roadsides. The species name incarnatum means "blood red". It is also suitable for making into hay. It is often used for roadside erosion control, as well as beautification; it tends, however, to...

* Erythranthe guttata is pollinated by bees, such as Bombus species. * A decoction of the leaves and stems has been used as a herbal steam bath for chest and back soreness. * The plant is used in Bach flower remedies - the keywords for prescribing it...

Its typical habitat is rough grassy places, broad-leaved woodland, forest margins, hedgerows and banks. The plant is a trailer or weak climber, supported by tendrils, growing to 1.2 m tall.

* A blue dye is obtained from the dried plant, an indigo substitute. * Fuller's teasel is occasionally cultivated for its seed head, which is used for carding cloth. The colour is yellow when mixed with alum.

* 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 .

The drupes are black when ripe and 12 mm (0.47 in) in diameter. An excellent fibre is obtained from the leaf stalks. The fibres are up to 50cm long, they are harvested commercially and used to make brushes, especially where these have to remain stiff...

Paitan is antiseptic, astringent and haemostatic. It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bloody stool, urorrhoea and bloody sputum.

* Succisa pratensis Moench, also known as Devil's-bit Scabious, is a flowering plant of the genus Succisa in the family Dipsacaceae . It also grows on damper ground . * An herbaceous perennial, forming a basal rosette to 1', from which arise 3' flowering...