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This is Orlaya grandiflora, also known as Minoan Lace, and White Lace Flower. This is an Annual plant grows to about 2 feet tall and likes to live in sun or partial shade. The bursting white blossoms arrive in late Spring and hang around until early Summer. This plant as well as Centaurea cyanus are two of the best choices if you want plants that will be valuable to beneficial pollen collectors. This includes butterflies, bees, wasps, flower flies, and many others that I have never heard of. This will make butterflies happy.

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These seeds were collected from Oryza sativa black, also known as Black Madras, Asian Rice, and Common Rice. This annual likes to live in full sun where it can grow up to about a foot and a half high and blossoms anywhere from the middle of summer until the middle of the fall sporting yellow, green, chartreuse, cream, and tan blossoms. The seed can be cooked and eaten and is one of the most cultivated crops in the world. You can also obtain oil from the seed and use it for cooking, to make salad dressing, to produce soap, or to create plastic for shipping. Starch from the rice is used to starch clothing, to produce cosmetics, and used in the making of textiles. The straw collected from the rice plant is used as a fuel, or to repair houses, or as a material to make thatching, bags, hats, paper, shoes, ropes, and storage containers. The seed can also be puffed and used a a delicious cereal. This plant is a larval host for the Violet-banded Skipper, Purple-washed Skipper, Ocola Skipper, and the Least Skipper butterflies. This annual can be grown in all USDA Hardiness Zones.