Wild Flower Butterfly Attracting Plant For Sale In Huntsville

The plant can reach 5-6' tall and has rough 4" long lance-shaped leaves. * The plant is often cultivated for its showy flowers, and can sometimes be found outside its native range as an escape from cultivation.

Obtusifolia) and Coffee Senna (S. * Senna hebecarpa ( American Senna or Wild Senna ) is an ornamental plant native to North America , specially Canada and the United States . Occidentalis), are also found in the East.

Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47.

Branchlets glabrous, puberulent, or pubescent. Panicles erect, lateral, congested or lax, 4-16(-20) × 3-8(-10) cm. Capsule obovate-elliptic, ovate, to oblong-lanceolate, 0.7-1.5(-2) cm, smooth.

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. * Echinops ritro is a species of globe thistle .

The basal leaves are long and slender or very narrowly lanceolate. * Echinacea paradoxa ( Bush's purple coneflower , Yellow Coneflower ) is a perennial species of flowering plant in the genus Echinacea .

* A good hedging plant, it is very tolerant of trimming. * Syringa josikaea ( Hungarian Lilac ) is a species of Lilac , native to central and eastern Europe , in the Carpathian Mountains in Hungary , Romania , and western Ukraine .

* This species of shrub is used for revegetating damaged or disturbed lands, such as overgrazed rangeland. These compounds have potential uses in food and pharmaceutical industry to mask bitter taste.

Flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds and butterflies. The hairy leaves, scalloped on the edges, are pea green, varying in size, all the way up to 3 in (7.6 cm) long and 2 in (5.1 cm) wide.

Raised beds should be considered in areas with poorly-drained soils. * Grow in average to organically rich, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. Appreciates some afternoon shade in hot summer climates.

Beebalm is the natural source of the antiseptic thymol, the primary active ingredient in modern commercial mouthwash formulas. * Monarda didyma (crimson beebalm, scarlet beebalm, scarlet monarda, Oswego tea, or bergamot) is an aromatic herb in the family...

* Helenium autumnale is a flowering plant native to North America. * The plant contains helenalin, a compound that has shown significant anti-tumour activity. Common names include common sneezeweed and large-flowered sneezeweed.

The species grow to between 0.5-2 m tall, with large inflorescences of small five-petalled flowers, creamy-white to pink-tinged in most species, dark pink in F. Rubra), native to North America.

It can be a repellent for certain insects, including aphids and squash bugs. * The plant is drought-tolerant and deer-resistant. * Nepeta cataria (also known as catnip , catswort , or catmint ) is a plant in the Lamiaceae family.

It is common in the Pacific Northwest where it is found in both openings and the forest understory at low to moderate elevations. A fast-growing plant, it thrives in thin woodland.

It is native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America, and naturalized in other parts of North and South America as well as in Europe, Asia, and Australia. * The original and its cultivars appear in shades of yellow, orange, and red.

* 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. * A good butterfly and moth plant.

Prefers a calcareous soil but tolerates mildly acid soils. * Succeeds in poor soils and on dry walls. * An annual with white, lilac, pink, maroon, and carmine flowers; easy from seed, they start flowering 6 weeks after sowing and continue until frost;...

* Lilac flowers in nodding terminal clusters to 6"; leaves to 6"; native to China. The flowers are fragrant and range in colour from pink to mauve, sometimes with a white base; they are produced in early summer on panicles 4-25 cm long and are attractive...

* The herb combines well with Sambucus nigra flowers (Elder) and Mentha x piperita vulgaris (Peppermint) for treating colds and influenza. * The familiar yarrow from which many garden cultivars have been derived; grows in very poor soil in full sun.

Typically the first year of growth produces a mound of foliage and flowering occurs the second year, plants are normally biennials but a number of races can be short lived perennials .

* A good hedging plant, it is very tolerant of trimming. * Syringa josikaea ( Hungarian Lilac ) is a species of Lilac , native to central and eastern Europe , in the Carpathian Mountains in Hungary , Romania , and western Ukraine .

* An oval shrub with pleasing dark green leaves and very fragrant white flowers in upright terminal racemes in late summer; does well in heavy shade; yellow or golden brown fall color; may expand by suckering to form colonies; likes moist soil.

Prefers a calcareous soil but tolerates mildly acid soils. * Succeeds in poor soils and on dry walls. * An annual with white, lilac, pink, maroon, and carmine flowers; easy from seed, they start flowering 6 weeks after sowing and continue until frost;...

Tall, with a wide, wispy, open crown. American snowbell's showy, white, bell-shaped flowers are borne in pairs from leaf axils. The foliage is bright-green and glossy. When in bloom, they cover the plant creating a fragrant, white cloud.

An infusion is used internally as a blood purifier and externally for treating cuts, burns and bruises. * Knautia arvensis , commonly known as Field Scabious , is a species in the genus Knautia .

* An oval shrub with pleasing dark green leaves and very fragrant white flowers in upright terminal racemes in late summer; does well in heavy shade; yellow or golden brown fall color; may expand by suckering to form colonies; likes moist soil.