Honey Bee Food Perennial Plant For Sale In Alabama

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

* Lemon balm ( Melissa officinalis ), not to be confused with bee balm , Monarda species, is a perennial herb in the mint family Lamiaceae , native to southern Europe and the Mediterranean region .

* The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed). * Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer. This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in...

* 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 lobe forming the leaf apex), and are darkly green.

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 in hot water or caustics.

* An excrescence produced on the leaf by an insect Melaphis chinensis or M. It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bloody stool, urorrhoea and bloody sputum.

* Tolerant of dry alkaline soils. * This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. A very ornamental plant, it prefers a continental climate with hot summers...

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

It was introduced to American colonists by Indians who used the plant for breaking fevers by means of heavy sweating. It is also called "agueweed", "feverwort" or "sweating-plant".

* 3" grayish leaves; in early summer, bell-shaped 1/4" pink flowers, with protruding stamens and style; white fruit; native from British Columbia to New Mexico, east to Illinois and Michigan .

* An herbaceous perennial, forming a basal rosette to 1', from which arise 3' flowering stems with purplish blue (rarely pink or white) flowers resembling scabiosa; likes moist, peaty soil in sun or part shade; native to Europe, north Africa, east to...

They can be cooked like asparagus. * The leaves are antiemetic, astringent, blood tonic and stomachic. * Thimbleberry fruits are smaller, flatter, and softer than raspberries, and have many small seeds.

They are useful in the treatment of chest complaints. * A nutritious starch is obtained from the root. * The flowers are demulcent, diuretic and emollient. * It was imported into Europe from southwestern China during, or possibly before, the 15th century.

It has been introduced in the US (New England). * Leaves to 5" long, heart-shaped, dark green; yellowish-white flowers in drooping clusters; of upright, rounded habit, like T. It is frequently planted as an ornamental tree in parks, or as a shade tree...

The blooms are nicely fragrant and visited by bees. * Sweet autumn clematis, as the common name suggests, is a fragrant fall-bloomer. They usually bloom in September in the Northern hemisphere .

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

* Bearsfoot root was used by the North American Indians as a stimulant and laxative remedy. * The large leaves, up to 1 foot long, are interesting. * Flowering period during the summer is long, attrracting many pollinators.

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

It is used in preserves. A lime substitute. One to several trunks are crooked and the 4-6 in. Large with an agreeably acid flavour, theymake good preserves and a refreshing lemonade-like drink.

When in bloom, they cover the plant creating a fragrant, white cloud. American snowbell's showy, white, bell-shaped flowers are borne in pairs from leaf axils. * A small delicate shrub with 1" white bell-shaped flowers in small clusters from the leaf...

Native to moist prairies and sedge meadows. It is commonly grown in gardens for its showy purple flowers (pink or white in some cultivars). All spikes of purple flowers appear in July and August.

* The Common Medlar (' Mespilus germanica', Turkish : toengel) is a large shrub or small tree , and the name of the fruit of this tree. * A flowering, fruit-producing tree, member of the rose family; flowers resemble those of hawthorn, white or light...

* It was originally native to the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico, but it is now used in many places in agriculture as a cover crop, a bee plant, an attractant for other beneficial insects, as a green manure and an ornamental plant.

* Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or Wild Sensitive Plant) is a herbaceous species of legume widely distributed through the temperate and tropical Americas.

* A variable species found in dry soil and full sun from Europe to China; stems to 3' with purple bracts and very attractive purple, pink, or white flowers in July and August; likes calcaric soils; spreads via suckers; aromatic leaves; widely used in...

Dislikes exposed positions. Succeeds in sun or semi-shade. Fragrant, pale yellow flowers in 3-20 flowered pendulous cymes bloom in late spring to early summer (June). It is similar in appearance to Tilia japonica except, in the words of Flora of China,...

Two other species, Sicklepod (S. * Clusters of light yellow to orange flowers atop a sparsely branched perennial or in axils of compound leaves. The flowers of this large plant are not typically pea-like.