Wild Flower Butterfly Attracting Plant For Sale In Sterling Heights

* It is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing 30 to 70 centimeters tall with many large serrated leaves around the base of the stem on winged petioles. It has a fringe of 20 to 30 white ray florets around a center of many densely packed yellow disc florets.

* Spiraea tomentosa , commonly known as the Steeplebush , is a plant similar in characteristic to the Hardhack ( S. * A vigorous plant, spreading by subterranean suckers and forming thickets.

Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies. It thrives in full sun in ordinary garden soil. It is commonly grown in gardens for its showy purple flowers (pink or white in some cultivars).

Pedicel 0-3 mm, glabrous or pubescent. Branchlets glabrous, puberulent, or pubescent. Panicles erect, lateral, congested or lax, 4-16(-20) × 3-8(-10) cm. Petiole 1-3 cm; leaf blade ovate, ovate-orbicular, to reniform, slightly broader than long or slightly...

They taste somewhat like peas. * The unopened flower buds are eaten cooked. It is in the genus Asclepias , making it a type of milkweed . It grows in sandy soils and appreciates lots of sunlight.

Common behaviors cats display when they sense the bruised leaves or stems of catnip are rubbing on the plant, rolling on the ground, pawing at it, licking it, and chewing it. Edible Uses: Condiment; Tea.

* Flowers to 5 inches, purple, borne in profusion. * A species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae ,native to South China (which includes Hong Kong ) and southeastern Asia * Common names include Hong Kong Orchid Tree, and Hawaiian orchid tree.

It has ragged, bright red tubular flowers 3–4 cm long, borne on showy heads of about 30 together, with reddish bracts. The dried leaves and flowers are used to scent and add colour to pot-pourri.

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

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

* The fresh leaves are chewed for their refreshing taste and to relieve thirst. * The leaves have been woven into skirts and aprons. * Yerba Santa (the name means Holy weed) is a famous domestic remedy from south-western N.

* An essential oil used in perfumery is obtained from the flowers. * This is the familiar lilac seen next to every old farmhouse. * The lilac is a very popular ornamental plant in gardens and parks, because of its attractive, sweet-smelling flowers, which...

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 to bees, butterflies, and birds.

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

Grow as annuals in St. Louis, either in the ground or in containers. It is a member of the Gerbera genus . * A flower, the Barberton daisy ( Gerbera jamesoni ) was discovered in Barberton , Mpumalanga Province , South Africa (1889) by Robert Jameson .

* 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 .

* Rosa nutkana ( Nootka Rose , Bristly rose , Wild rose ) is a 2-10 foot (60cm-3m) tall perennial shrub in the Rose family ( Rosaceae ). * A poultice of the chewed leaves has been used to alleviate the pain of bee stings.

* If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer. Blooms late summer to early fall. * Echinops ritro is a species of globe thistle .

* Vigorous; 1" white flowers with a slight almond scent beginning in July; native to Europe. The many fruits formed in each inflorescence have long silky appendages which, seen together, give the characteristic appearance of Old Man's beard .

The panicles often hang limply, which is how the plant got its common name; the clusters look as though they are nodding. The flowers are generally longer on this subspecies. * Syringa komarowii is a species of lilac native to central China, commonly...

* If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer. Blooms late summer to early fall. * Echinops ritro is a species of globe thistle .

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 .

* Bright flowers of daisyish form, yellow ray petals and yellow-brown centers, from July to October; forms large clumps; parent of many hybrids; native to swamps and wet fields over much of the U.S. * The dried nearly mature flower heads are used in a...

The upper stems are reddish or purplish. Leaves are large, long and sharply toothed. * Eutrochium fistulosum (Eupatorium fistulosum), also called Joe-Pye weed, Trumpetweed, or Purple thoroughwort, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native...

* The wood is hard and heavy, suitable for making furniture and other small articles. * Dark green shiny leaves, yellow, bronzy, and red in fall; 1/3" bright red fruit, good bird food; large shrub, can be trained as a small tree; susceptible to fireblight;...

* White, pink, or rose flowers to 6", usually with a crimson base; a swamp plant; very salt tolerant; flowers in late summer; native to eastern U.S. to Michigan, south to Alabama, * The leaves and roots abound in mucilage.

* Spiraea tomentosa , commonly known as the Steeplebush , is a plant similar in characteristic to the Hardhack ( S. * A vigorous plant, spreading by subterranean suckers and forming thickets.