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The Innovation Network is working with other BCC student-led organizations to create a monarch waystation and meditation garden, providing campus-wide educational experiences while offering students a place to relax and enjoy the campus's beauty. The garden creates a monarch habitat that would be certified and protected by Monarch Watch, a non-profit education, conservation, and research program based at the University of Kansas. It offers an educational space where students can learn about the importance of pollination and native plants and the medicinal value of herbs such as sage, echinacea, rosemary, and lavender and creates a quiet place for students to breathe, meditate, and collect their thoughts.
According to the US Forest Service, the monarch is the only butterfly known to make a two-way migration as birds do. Unlike other butterflies that can overwinter as larvae, pupae, or even adults in some species, monarchs cannot survive the cold winters of northern climates. Using environmental cues, the monarchs know when to travel south for the winter. Monarchs use a combination of air currents and thermals to travel long distances. Some fly as far as 3,000 miles to reach their winter home. To learn more about monarch migration, please visit the US Forest Service.
Monarch waystations are garden and meadow-like areas with the necessary feeding and breeding plants for monarchs to travel great distances and produce future generations.
Monarch Watch, a nonprofit education, conservation, and research program, provides information about monarch butterflies' biology and migration. They research monarch migration and monarch population dynamics seeking to conserve the monarch migration. In addition, Monarch Watch offers guidelines for creating monarch habitats.
The Innovation Network at Brookdale Community College supports this unique monarch migration phenomenon and is pursuing official certification as a monarch waystation. For more information about Monarch Watch and waystation certification, check out Monarch Watch at www.monarchwatch.org.
Common Milkweed
Common Name: Common Milkweed
Scientific Name: Asclepias syriaca
Description: A perennial plant generally standing three to five feet tall yet can grow up to 8 feet tall. Milkweed produces clusters of small pink or purple flowers. The leaves are up to seven inches long and four inches wide, with a red vein running down the middle.
Purpose in Garden: Monarch butterflies need milkweed as a place to lay their eggs and hatch their larvae (caterpillars). When monarch caterpillars are hatched from the egg, they rely entirely on milkweed to eat for nourishment. Therefore, monarchs can not survive without milkweed plants.
Fun Fact: Milkweed produces a chemical that makes monarch butterflies toxic and bitter tasting to some of their predators!
Scientific Name: Asclepias syriaca
Description: A perennial plant generally standing three to five feet tall yet can grow up to 8 feet tall. Milkweed produces clusters of small pink or purple flowers. The leaves are up to seven inches long and four inches wide, with a red vein running down the middle.
Purpose in Garden: Monarch butterflies need milkweed as a place to lay their eggs and hatch their larvae (caterpillars). When monarch caterpillars are hatched from the egg, they rely entirely on milkweed to eat for nourishment. Therefore, monarchs can not survive without milkweed plants.
Fun Fact: Milkweed produces a chemical that makes monarch butterflies toxic and bitter tasting to some of their predators!
Goldenrod
Common Name: Goldenrod
Scientific Name: Asclepias tuberosa
Description: When in bloom, a fluffy, yellow flower, the goldenrod, is a perennial that proliferates in a healthy garden. In full sun, the plant can grow up to three feet tall.
Purpose in Garden: The goldenrod plant attracts various butterflies and pollinators. It provides nectar and pollen late in the blooming season.
Fun Fact: Since the flowers grow at the end of the stem, they are often called "fireworks."
Scientific Name: Asclepias tuberosa
Description: When in bloom, a fluffy, yellow flower, the goldenrod, is a perennial that proliferates in a healthy garden. In full sun, the plant can grow up to three feet tall.
Purpose in Garden: The goldenrod plant attracts various butterflies and pollinators. It provides nectar and pollen late in the blooming season.
Fun Fact: Since the flowers grow at the end of the stem, they are often called "fireworks."
Bee Balm
Common Name: Bee Balm
Scientific Name: Monarda
Description: A plant from the mint family, native to North America, grows two to four feet tall. Bee Balm is also known as oswego tea for its reminiscent aroma of bergamot.
Purpose in Garden: The Bee Balm nectar plant serves as food for monarch butterflies. These plants are a chief source of pollen for monarchs to nourish themselves. They also attract other pollinators that are vital to our ecosystem.
Fun Fact: Bee Balm earned its name from the early use of soothing bee stings!
Scientific Name: Monarda
Description: A plant from the mint family, native to North America, grows two to four feet tall. Bee Balm is also known as oswego tea for its reminiscent aroma of bergamot.
Purpose in Garden: The Bee Balm nectar plant serves as food for monarch butterflies. These plants are a chief source of pollen for monarchs to nourish themselves. They also attract other pollinators that are vital to our ecosystem.
Fun Fact: Bee Balm earned its name from the early use of soothing bee stings!
Blazing Star
Common Name: Blazing Star
Scientific Name: Liatris
Description: A fuchsia-colored perennial native to North America, Blazing Star belongs to the sunflower family. Often used in flower bouquets, it is named for its bold bloom. It ranges from 1 to 8 feet in height.
Purpose in Garden: Blazing Star serves as food for monarch butterflies. These plants are a chief source of pollen for monarchs to nourish themselves. They also attract other pollinators that are vital to our ecosystem.
Fun Fact: The plants bloom from top to bottom, whereas other plant species bloom from the bottom to top.
Scientific Name: Liatris
Description: A fuchsia-colored perennial native to North America, Blazing Star belongs to the sunflower family. Often used in flower bouquets, it is named for its bold bloom. It ranges from 1 to 8 feet in height.
Purpose in Garden: Blazing Star serves as food for monarch butterflies. These plants are a chief source of pollen for monarchs to nourish themselves. They also attract other pollinators that are vital to our ecosystem.
Fun Fact: The plants bloom from top to bottom, whereas other plant species bloom from the bottom to top.
Coreopsis
Common Name: Coreopsis
Scientific Name: Coreopsis
Description: A midsized, perennial flower native to North American prairies, coreopsis grows from four to eight inches tall. Coreopsis can be identified by its daisy-like bloom that ranges in color from golden yellow to orange, pink, purple, and more.
Purpose in Garden: Coreopsis plants serve as food for monarch butterflies. These plants are a chief source of pollen for monarchs to nourish themselves. They also attract other pollinators that are vital to our ecosystem.
Fun Fact: The plant would be boiled to drink in early America to help internal pains. The flowers of the plants would also be used as a dye.
Scientific Name: Coreopsis
Description: A midsized, perennial flower native to North American prairies, coreopsis grows from four to eight inches tall. Coreopsis can be identified by its daisy-like bloom that ranges in color from golden yellow to orange, pink, purple, and more.
Purpose in Garden: Coreopsis plants serve as food for monarch butterflies. These plants are a chief source of pollen for monarchs to nourish themselves. They also attract other pollinators that are vital to our ecosystem.
Fun Fact: The plant would be boiled to drink in early America to help internal pains. The flowers of the plants would also be used as a dye.
Blue False Indigo
Common Name: Blue False Indigo
Scientific Name: Baptisia australis
Description: These radiant blue, pea-like flowers are ready just in time for summer! Appearing in June, these tall, three to four-foot flowers with their "inflated green pods" are sure to bring life to your garden. But watch out for them in winter because their green pods lose their color and blacken. In this blackened state, they make a noise resembling a rattle. Make sure to give these native species plenty of sunlight because they need plenty of rays to shine bright in your garden!
Purpose in Garden: Blue False Indigo is excellent for butterflies for various reasons, including providing nectar.
Fun Fact: This beautiful plant was named the 2010 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association!
Scientific Name: Baptisia australis
Description: These radiant blue, pea-like flowers are ready just in time for summer! Appearing in June, these tall, three to four-foot flowers with their "inflated green pods" are sure to bring life to your garden. But watch out for them in winter because their green pods lose their color and blacken. In this blackened state, they make a noise resembling a rattle. Make sure to give these native species plenty of sunlight because they need plenty of rays to shine bright in your garden!
Purpose in Garden: Blue False Indigo is excellent for butterflies for various reasons, including providing nectar.
Fun Fact: This beautiful plant was named the 2010 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association!
Purple Coneflower
Common Name: Purple Coneflower
Scientific Name: Echinacea angustifolia
Description: Purple Coneflower is a relatively large wildflower, ranging from one foot to five feet in height. As indicated by its name, the flower head has a prominent, spiny, brown central cone surrounded by light purple or white petal-like rays.
Purpose in Garden: Purple Coneflower is well-known as a butterfly magnet. It attracts many different species of butterflies as well as hummingbirds!
Fun Fact: A root poultice is applied to wounds, swellings, and sores. The roots and seed heads are chewed to relieve toothache, sore throat, and other ailments. In addition, a root decoction is used to boost the immune system and relieve flu and cold symptoms. Purple Coneflower was commonly used in America up until the 20th century.
Scientific Name: Echinacea angustifolia
Description: Purple Coneflower is a relatively large wildflower, ranging from one foot to five feet in height. As indicated by its name, the flower head has a prominent, spiny, brown central cone surrounded by light purple or white petal-like rays.
Purpose in Garden: Purple Coneflower is well-known as a butterfly magnet. It attracts many different species of butterflies as well as hummingbirds!
Fun Fact: A root poultice is applied to wounds, swellings, and sores. The roots and seed heads are chewed to relieve toothache, sore throat, and other ailments. In addition, a root decoction is used to boost the immune system and relieve flu and cold symptoms. Purple Coneflower was commonly used in America up until the 20th century.
Native Asters
Common Name: Native Asters
Scientific Name: Symphyotrichum dumosum
Description: A native perennial, bushy aster is a flowering plant often found in Southern and Eastern states. This herbaceous perennial grows up to 40 inches tall. The ray florets are blue, pink, purple, or white, while the disc florets are pale yellow, turning pink with age.
Purpose in Garden: The nectar plants serve as food for monarch butterflies. These plants are a chief source of pollen for monarchs to nourish themselves. They also attract other pollinators that are vital to our ecosystem.
Fun Fact: This flower is considered a part of the daisy family!
Scientific Name: Symphyotrichum dumosum
Description: A native perennial, bushy aster is a flowering plant often found in Southern and Eastern states. This herbaceous perennial grows up to 40 inches tall. The ray florets are blue, pink, purple, or white, while the disc florets are pale yellow, turning pink with age.
Purpose in Garden: The nectar plants serve as food for monarch butterflies. These plants are a chief source of pollen for monarchs to nourish themselves. They also attract other pollinators that are vital to our ecosystem.
Fun Fact: This flower is considered a part of the daisy family!
Woodland Sunflower
Common Name: Woodland Sunflower
Scientific Name: Helianthus divaricatus
Description: The woodland sunflower grows around three to seven feet tall. The stems can be light green or purple and have widely spreading leaves along the central and secondary stems. The flower heads consist of eight to 15 ray florets, and the petals are spread widely. The center of the flower is a dark yellow, and the large petals are a soft yellow. They bloom from mid-summer to fall.
Purpose in Garden: The nectar and pollen attract a wide variety of insects and provide food to caterpillars of the silvery checkerspot butterflies and painted lady butterflies.
Fun Fact: Since the Woodland Sunflower is tall and forms dense colonies, it provides good ground cover for many types of wildlife.
Scientific Name: Helianthus divaricatus
Description: The woodland sunflower grows around three to seven feet tall. The stems can be light green or purple and have widely spreading leaves along the central and secondary stems. The flower heads consist of eight to 15 ray florets, and the petals are spread widely. The center of the flower is a dark yellow, and the large petals are a soft yellow. They bloom from mid-summer to fall.
Purpose in Garden: The nectar and pollen attract a wide variety of insects and provide food to caterpillars of the silvery checkerspot butterflies and painted lady butterflies.
Fun Fact: Since the Woodland Sunflower is tall and forms dense colonies, it provides good ground cover for many types of wildlife.
Foxglove Beardtongue
Common Name: Foxglove Beardtongue
Scientific Name: Penstemon digitalis
Description: These flowers can grow up to three to six feet, and their bell-shaped white blossoms bloom from late May to June. The blossoms contain hairy tongues that help the pollination process and attract many species of long-tongued bees.
Purpose in Garden: Many pollinators are attracted to the Foxglove Beardtongue.
Fun Fact: The plant adapts readily to cultivation, and the flowering stalks often tower above neighboring plants. While adaptable and easy to grow, the leaves will yellow, and the flower will wilt under severe drought conditions.
Scientific Name: Penstemon digitalis
Description: These flowers can grow up to three to six feet, and their bell-shaped white blossoms bloom from late May to June. The blossoms contain hairy tongues that help the pollination process and attract many species of long-tongued bees.
Purpose in Garden: Many pollinators are attracted to the Foxglove Beardtongue.
Fun Fact: The plant adapts readily to cultivation, and the flowering stalks often tower above neighboring plants. While adaptable and easy to grow, the leaves will yellow, and the flower will wilt under severe drought conditions.
Chives
Common Name: Chives
Scientific Name: Allium schoenoprasum
Description: Chives grow in clusters with grass-like leaves that can grow over a foot tall.
Purpose in Garden: Chives are meant to stick around, and this plant doesn't move much; the butterflies and their offspring will remember where to find this plant every year.
Fun Fact: This herb is related to stronger-tasting relatives like onions and garlic, yet the flavor is milder and more subtle.
Scientific Name: Allium schoenoprasum
Description: Chives grow in clusters with grass-like leaves that can grow over a foot tall.
Purpose in Garden: Chives are meant to stick around, and this plant doesn't move much; the butterflies and their offspring will remember where to find this plant every year.
Fun Fact: This herb is related to stronger-tasting relatives like onions and garlic, yet the flavor is milder and more subtle.
Thyme
Common Name: Thyme
Scientific Name: Thymus vulgaris
Description: An upright little green vine with delicate leaves and tiny flowers. The plant gets brown in times of drought and scorching weather.
Purpose in Garden: Butterflies find this plant irresistible and will gain many immune-boosting properties from thyme.
Fun Fact: Thyme is strong and pungent in smell. Often used in immune-building soups, this plant has an unmistakable aroma and taste. As a result, individuals may be instantly repelled or attracted!
Scientific Name: Thymus vulgaris
Description: An upright little green vine with delicate leaves and tiny flowers. The plant gets brown in times of drought and scorching weather.
Purpose in Garden: Butterflies find this plant irresistible and will gain many immune-boosting properties from thyme.
Fun Fact: Thyme is strong and pungent in smell. Often used in immune-building soups, this plant has an unmistakable aroma and taste. As a result, individuals may be instantly repelled or attracted!
Oregano
Common Name: Oregano
Scientific Name: Origanum vulgare
Description: Oregano has small leaves and generally grows upright, although the plant can also creep and spread out if there is space and ample water.
Purpose in Garden: To provide food and habitat for the butterflies and other pollinating insects.
Fun Fact: Possessing a strong flavor and aroma, this plant is legendary as a defense against infection and viruses. Just lightly brush up against this herb, and you will get a strong whiff of the protective powers of plants!
Scientific Name: Origanum vulgare
Description: Oregano has small leaves and generally grows upright, although the plant can also creep and spread out if there is space and ample water.
Purpose in Garden: To provide food and habitat for the butterflies and other pollinating insects.
Fun Fact: Possessing a strong flavor and aroma, this plant is legendary as a defense against infection and viruses. Just lightly brush up against this herb, and you will get a strong whiff of the protective powers of plants!
Basil
Common Name: Basil
Scientific Name: Ocimum basilicum
Description: Bushy with large leaves, this plant will grow rather tall if left uncut. However, once it flowers, the growth gets less dense if the flowers are not cut or pruned.
Purpose in Garden: Basil provides butterfly-attracting flowers that most of us who grow it for cooking seldom see.
Fun Fact: Hardly an Italian dish isn't improved with this tasty herb! Basil is a staple for many cooks, and the flavor and scent are easily recognizable. This plant also has immune-boosting properties and tends to sweeten tomato-based sauces.
Scientific Name: Ocimum basilicum
Description: Bushy with large leaves, this plant will grow rather tall if left uncut. However, once it flowers, the growth gets less dense if the flowers are not cut or pruned.
Purpose in Garden: Basil provides butterfly-attracting flowers that most of us who grow it for cooking seldom see.
Fun Fact: Hardly an Italian dish isn't improved with this tasty herb! Basil is a staple for many cooks, and the flavor and scent are easily recognizable. This plant also has immune-boosting properties and tends to sweeten tomato-based sauces.
Sage
Common Name: Sage
Scientific Name: Salvia officinalis
Description: Sage is a perennial plant that may grow to about 2 feet tall. The oval leaves are downy and range from gray-green to whitish green.
Purpose in Garden: Deer don't like the smell of Sage, and the scent helps protect nectar-producing plants.
Fun Fact: Indigenous people are said to have used Sage as a toothbrush.
Scientific Name: Salvia officinalis
Description: Sage is a perennial plant that may grow to about 2 feet tall. The oval leaves are downy and range from gray-green to whitish green.
Purpose in Garden: Deer don't like the smell of Sage, and the scent helps protect nectar-producing plants.
Fun Fact: Indigenous people are said to have used Sage as a toothbrush.
Lavander
Common Name: Lavender
Scientific Name: Lavandula
Description: A small spiky kind of shrub-like plant, the flowers will shoot straight up and lend a fantastic purple color to the garden.
Purpose in Garden: This herb adds beauty and lovely fragrance to the garden, much to the delight of butterflies and people.
Fun Fact: In a world filled with anxiety, this plant is known all over the planet as an anti-anxiety herb, and the scent is calming and refreshing to a worried mind!
Scientific Name: Lavandula
Description: A small spiky kind of shrub-like plant, the flowers will shoot straight up and lend a fantastic purple color to the garden.
Purpose in Garden: This herb adds beauty and lovely fragrance to the garden, much to the delight of butterflies and people.
Fun Fact: In a world filled with anxiety, this plant is known all over the planet as an anti-anxiety herb, and the scent is calming and refreshing to a worried mind!
Rosemary
Common Name: Rosemary
Scientific Name: Salvia rosmarinus
Description: Bushy and tall like a little Christmas tree with beautiful but tiny flowers.
Purpose in Garden: Rosemary helps anchor the garden, wards off predators, and even discourages deer and other smaller critters.
Fun Fact: Beloved by the bees and butterflies, this age-old remedy for just about anything that ails you prefers to live close to the sea. Hopefully, Brookdale isn't too far from the crashing waves that a slight scent of salt water makes its way over here to cheer up this herb!
Scientific Name: Salvia rosmarinus
Description: Bushy and tall like a little Christmas tree with beautiful but tiny flowers.
Purpose in Garden: Rosemary helps anchor the garden, wards off predators, and even discourages deer and other smaller critters.
Fun Fact: Beloved by the bees and butterflies, this age-old remedy for just about anything that ails you prefers to live close to the sea. Hopefully, Brookdale isn't too far from the crashing waves that a slight scent of salt water makes its way over here to cheer up this herb!
Creeping Thyme
Common Name: Creeping Thyme
Scientific Name: Thymus praecox
Description: A tiny, creeping, vine-like plant with many tiny and colorful flowers that seem like purple stars on the ground.
Purpose in Garden: A tiny but powerful plant that likes to creep around and help provide borders, protection for the less hardy plants, and protection from hungry critters great and small.
Fun Fact: A tough, little plant that resists poor soil, drought, and even deer! Not much flavor for cooking, but the butterflies like it!
Scientific Name: Thymus praecox
Description: A tiny, creeping, vine-like plant with many tiny and colorful flowers that seem like purple stars on the ground.
Purpose in Garden: A tiny but powerful plant that likes to creep around and help provide borders, protection for the less hardy plants, and protection from hungry critters great and small.
Fun Fact: A tough, little plant that resists poor soil, drought, and even deer! Not much flavor for cooking, but the butterflies like it!
Butterfly Weed
Common Name: Butterfly Weed
Scientific Name: Asclepias tuberosa L.
Description: Butterfly weed is a perennial made up of individual flowers. The flower has five petals pointing, and the seed pod contains many brown seeds with a tuft of silky white hairs that float and repopulate more Butterfly Weeds when opened. Unlike other milkweed species, Butterfly Weed does not contain the characteristic thick milky sap but instead has a watery translucent sap.
Purpose in Garden: Also known as orange milkweed, Butterfly weed is another type of milkweed where monarch butterflies lay their eggs and use the leaves as a food source until they transform into butterflies.
Fun Fact: Indigenous people harvested fibers from the dried stems that were made into ropes and used in weaving cloth.
Scientific Name: Asclepias tuberosa L.
Description: Butterfly weed is a perennial made up of individual flowers. The flower has five petals pointing, and the seed pod contains many brown seeds with a tuft of silky white hairs that float and repopulate more Butterfly Weeds when opened. Unlike other milkweed species, Butterfly Weed does not contain the characteristic thick milky sap but instead has a watery translucent sap.
Purpose in Garden: Also known as orange milkweed, Butterfly weed is another type of milkweed where monarch butterflies lay their eggs and use the leaves as a food source until they transform into butterflies.
Fun Fact: Indigenous people harvested fibers from the dried stems that were made into ropes and used in weaving cloth.
Dill
Common Name: Dill
Scientific Name: Anethum graveolens
Description: Dill is an annual herb from the celery family. Dill has aromatic, fern-like leaves growing one to two feet in height.
Purpose in Garden: The scent of Dill is smelly and strong tasting and generally disliked by deer.
Fun Fact: When chewed, Dill is believed to help bad breathe!
Scientific Name: Anethum graveolens
Description: Dill is an annual herb from the celery family. Dill has aromatic, fern-like leaves growing one to two feet in height.
Purpose in Garden: The scent of Dill is smelly and strong tasting and generally disliked by deer.
Fun Fact: When chewed, Dill is believed to help bad breathe!
Parsley
Common Name: Parsley
Scientific Name: Petroselinum crispum
Description: Parsley is bright green, has fern-like leaves, and can grow up to two feet tall.
Purpose in Garden: Swallowtail butterflies use parsley as a place to lay eggs. The caterpillars are black and green striped with yellow dots and will feed on parsley before turning into butterflies. Other pollinators love the flowers. And the New Jersey state bird, the goldfinch, feeds on parsley seeds.
Fun Fact: Parsley is used in the Hebrew celebration of Passover as a symbol of spring and rebirth.
Scientific Name: Petroselinum crispum
Description: Parsley is bright green, has fern-like leaves, and can grow up to two feet tall.
Purpose in Garden: Swallowtail butterflies use parsley as a place to lay eggs. The caterpillars are black and green striped with yellow dots and will feed on parsley before turning into butterflies. Other pollinators love the flowers. And the New Jersey state bird, the goldfinch, feeds on parsley seeds.
Fun Fact: Parsley is used in the Hebrew celebration of Passover as a symbol of spring and rebirth.
Joe Pye Weed
Common Name: Joe Pye Weed
Scientific Name: Eupatorium dubium
Description: Joe Pye Weed blooms mid-summer to early fall and will grow from three to nine feet tall. The multiple floral blooms look like pink clouds.
Purpose in Garden: Joe Pye weed is a pollinator favorite and attracts beneficial insects to the garden.
Fun Fact: Joe Pye Weed is named after Joe Pye, a 19th-century naturalist who is reported to have used a brew of Joe Pye Weed roots to "heal typhus fever."
Scientific Name: Eupatorium dubium
Description: Joe Pye Weed blooms mid-summer to early fall and will grow from three to nine feet tall. The multiple floral blooms look like pink clouds.
Purpose in Garden: Joe Pye weed is a pollinator favorite and attracts beneficial insects to the garden.
Fun Fact: Joe Pye Weed is named after Joe Pye, a 19th-century naturalist who is reported to have used a brew of Joe Pye Weed roots to "heal typhus fever."
Swamp Milkweed
Common Name: Swamp Milkweed
Scientific Name: Asclepias incarnata
Description: Growing up to six feet tall, the Swamp Milkweed flower varies in color from darker shades of purple to soft, pinkish purple and white. It differs from the Common Milkweed in stem structure and slimmer oval leaves.
Purpose in Garden: Swamp Milkweed is another variety of Milkweed attracting monarch butterflies and offering a place to feed and lay their eggs.
Fun Fact: Swamp Milkweed is reported to have helped win World War II. The downy parachutes attached to each seed in the seed pods were used to fill life jackets because the feathery substance was more buoyant than cork and other materials.
Scientific Name: Asclepias incarnata
Description: Growing up to six feet tall, the Swamp Milkweed flower varies in color from darker shades of purple to soft, pinkish purple and white. It differs from the Common Milkweed in stem structure and slimmer oval leaves.
Purpose in Garden: Swamp Milkweed is another variety of Milkweed attracting monarch butterflies and offering a place to feed and lay their eggs.
Fun Fact: Swamp Milkweed is reported to have helped win World War II. The downy parachutes attached to each seed in the seed pods were used to fill life jackets because the feathery substance was more buoyant than cork and other materials.
Thyme
Common Name: Thyme
Scientific Name: Thymus vulgaris
Description: Thyme is a perennial with tiny white flowers that grow from six inches to one foot and may spread to a foot in diameter per plant.
Purpose in Garden: Thyme has a strong scent and is a deer-resistant herb.
Fun Fact: Thyme is reported to have antibacterial, insecticidal, and possibly antifungal properties. People are thought to have used thyme throughout history for embalming and to protect from the Black Death. Burning thyme may get rid of insects in your house. And a bed of thyme was thought to be a home for fairies.
Scientific Name: Thymus vulgaris
Description: Thyme is a perennial with tiny white flowers that grow from six inches to one foot and may spread to a foot in diameter per plant.
Purpose in Garden: Thyme has a strong scent and is a deer-resistant herb.
Fun Fact: Thyme is reported to have antibacterial, insecticidal, and possibly antifungal properties. People are thought to have used thyme throughout history for embalming and to protect from the Black Death. Burning thyme may get rid of insects in your house. And a bed of thyme was thought to be a home for fairies.
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