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The fairy duster flowers are a pale pink color and are an attraction to animals that live in the desert. This plant becomes a source of food for the deer that roam in the desert or hillsides. The plant also attracts butterflies, bees and hummingbirds for nectar when the flowers are blooming.
Phlox subulata in an ornamental planting beneath a cherry tree at Yachounomori Garden in Annaka, Gunma. Phlox subulata the creeping phlox, moss phlox, [1] moss pink or mountain phlox, is a species of flowering plant in the family Polemoniaceae, native to the eastern and central United States, and widely cultivated.
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of Texas; Orchids of Wisconsin; Florida's Native and Naturalized Orchids; Go Botany, New England Wildflower Society; Missouri Plants, photo; Paul Smith's College, College of the Adirondacks, Visitor's Interpretive Center; Ontario Wildflowers; Minnesota Wildflowers
Dig or pull weeds by hand. You can weed at any time of the year, but the best time to pull weeds is after it has rained, when the soil is moist and loose. Use a pre-emergent and post-emergent product.
Rhododendron periclymenoides, the pink azalea [1] or pinxter flower, is a species of shrub in the heath family Ericaceae. It is native to eastern North America, where it is widespread from Alabama to New Hampshire. [2] It is often found in riparian areas, in wet to dry forests. [3] This species produces showy pink flowers in the spring.
The flowers are arranged in a loose cluster and have ten filaments – five of which are fertile – and five styles. [6] The leaves are pinnate to pinnate-pinnatifid, with hairy stems. [ 7 ] The long seed-pod, shaped like the bill of a stork, bursts open in a spiral when ripe, sending the seeds (which have long tails called awns) into the air.
The Audubon Society maintains an online database of bird-friendly plants native to different areas. Bird feeders also are an easy way to attract hummingbirds to the backyard.
It is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial producing clumps of stiff, squared stems 2–4 ft (0.61–1.22 m) tall. The leaves are lanceolate and toothed. The inflorescence is a long, dense raceme containing many tubular pink flowers which resemble snapdragons. The open fruit is shaped like a vase and contains four triangular, black seeds.