The morning glory flowers are funnel-shaped flowers, which open at morning time, allowing them to be pollinated by hummingbirds, butterflies, bees and other daytime insects and birds. When dusk falls they are pollinated by the hawkmoth. The flower typically lasts for a single morning and dies in the afternoon.
The large, bell-shaped or lily-like flowers of the amaryllis and its hybrids make excellent garden subjects and pot plants. They can be grown as garden plants from Macon southward in Georgia. In these areas, they are used in beds, borders and for specimen plants. In north Georgia, they make excellent pot plants and spring and summer garden plants. When used as individual specimens, in mass plantings, as part of perennial borders or as low plantings in front of shrub borders, amaryllis provide spectacular flower effects.
There are 15 different species of Death Camas, all of which are located in North America. Most of these species survive in moist mountain valleys or sandy hills and plains. Death Camas might be a beautiful looking flower, but it is poisonous to sheep, cattle, pigs, and humans.
What makes this plant poisonous is the steroidal alkaloids, which have potent hypotensive activity commonly found in Veratrum, a false hellebore. The bulb and the mature leaves are the most toxic part of the plant itself.
Astragalus is a Chinese herb that helps to stimulate the immune system. Besides stimulating the immune system, astragalus, also helps the body to replenish spleen deficiency and is helpful for prolapse syndromes. Some prolapse syndromes include a prolapsed uterus, stomach, and anus.