Nursery Flowers (Medium to Moist Soil) – Page 3 – Prairie Shore Botanicals

Yellow Paintbrush

These hemi-parasitic plants appear to have been dipped in bright yellow paint.

Look closely at the undersides of the leaves and you’ll find they’re covered in resinous dots.

Pass by a patch of northern bedstraw and you’ll surely be caught in a cloud of sweet perfume.

Sometimes it’s the things that aren’t look-at-me spectacular that are the most intriguing.

The small white flowers have centers that quickly turn colour from creamy to purplish.

Large, plain white flowers are surprisingly attractive.

The flowers provide a late-season nectar source for a wide range of insects.

Attractive in both the vegetative and flowering stages.

A hemiparasite on asters, native grasses and some non-native grasses.

Bold and beautiful. An important late-season food source for many insects.