The bright blue, star-shaped flowers make a beautiful edible garnish and are candied to decorate cakes, desserts, and fruit salads. Burdock, Arctium lappa. Roots and shoots used as a vegetable. Butterfly Weed , Asclepias tuberosa. Dried pods great for arrangements.
Showy flowers are in clusters of bright orange.
Also known as 'pleurisy root,' it is used as an expectorant and anti-inflammatory. Very attractive to butterflies. Very colorful yellow to orange flowers mainly used in garden borders. Flower petals sprinkled on salads as colorful garnish. Yellow dye made from blossoms.