Acid Loving Plant Plant For Moist Soil For Sale In District Of Columbia

* Ilex glabra is one of the very few evergreen shrubs (broadleaf or narrowleaf) to thrive in wet sites, noted for its evergreen foliage and upright, spreading, and suckering shrub growth habit when in species form.

To be able to compete successfully in such habitats, it has adapted greater shade tolerance than most other pines. This pine is a straight-growing, medium-sized species, attaining heights of 20-35 m.

* Ilex glabra is one of the very few evergreen shrubs (broadleaf or narrowleaf) to thrive in wet sites, noted for its evergreen foliage and upright, spreading, and suckering shrub growth habit when in species form.

* The wood is light, fragrant, easily worked, resists insects damage. * An evergreen native to China, where it is a widely used timber tree; the wood resists rot; of pyramidal habit with slightly pendulous branches; bark brown, peeling to reveal reddish...

The fruit is a red drupe 6–7 mm diameter containing three to five pits The leaves are 1.5-7 cm long and 1-3 cm broad, with an entire or finely serrated margin and an acute apex, and a 0.5–2 cm petiole.

Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World and inhabits moist and low-nutrient longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris ) savannas along the United States Gulf Coast , generally west of the Apalachicola River on the Florida Panhandle .

The flowers are white, borne in early spring. A poisonous plant if consumed by people or animals.The name "andromeda" originated in the genus where the plant was formerly placed. * Pieris japonica is a shrub with alternate, simple leaves , on brittle...

This conflicts with the hardiness rating of 7 (temperatures down to between -5 and -10°c) given in . Plants can tolerate temperatures down to about -10°c. * Sarracenia flava , the Yellow pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the family Sarraceniaceae...

Plants can be grown in containers in pond margins but are then best kept in drier conditions over winter. * Prefers a light well-drained soil and a sunny position. Likes plenty of moisture and a rich loamy slightly acid soil.

* It was the first magnolia to be scientifically described, and is the type species of the genus Magnolia ; as Magnolia is also the type genus of all flowering plants , this species can be seen to typify all flowering plants.

* Flat or bell-shaped 1 1/2" flowers in clusters of 5-7, rose, in spring before leaves; of upright habit; deciduous, with red fall color; native to North Carolina, where it grows in moist acid soil.

* Shiny reddish-brown or dark brown bark; often of shrubby habit; native to Rocky Mountains * The buds and twigs are used as a flavouring in stews * Betula occidentalis ( Water Birch , also known as Red Birch ) is a species of birch native to western...

* A large shrub with attractive red-brown bark, white flowers in midsummer, and yellow-orange fall color; native to southeast U.S.

* The sap is edible raw or cooked. The flow is best on warm sunny days following a hard frost. This species is excellent when used in groupings, in groves, or even as a single specimen.

* Easily grown from seed. * Deeply lobed glossy green leaves (2-3' long) form an ornamental mound which usually remains attractive throughout the growing season. This plant is also cultivated in many European and American gardens.

Other reports say that it is closely related to P. Rigida but distinct, and is less hardy than that species. * Pinus serotina ( Pond Pine , Marsh Pine , Pocosin Pine ) is a tree found along the Atlantic coastal plain of the eastern United States , from...

It burns with a clear, bright flame and is valued as a fuel. * Requires a free-draining, light, sandy, acid soil with additional leafmould added. * The wood is heavy, close-grained, moderately hard, brittle, not strong.

The cones are cylindric-conic, 4-8 cm long and 2 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5-7 months after pollination, and have stiff, smoothly rounded scales. The shoots are orange-brown, glabrous or with scattered pubescence.

* A variable evergreen of upright, rounded habit, with 1/2" white flowers in small clusters; 1" green or red berries; likes moist soil, part shade; emerging leaves bronzy to reddish, later leathery, dark green; leaves to 4" x 1 1/2", turning bronzy-red...

Used for small articles. Its pome fruits are edible and can be eaten raw or cooked. * Wood - fine grained, hard, very heavy, reddish. * Amelanchier ovalis , commonly known as Snowy Mespilus , is a serviceberry shrub.

The Bonsai will produce cones but they are small, so they seem in proportion to the tree. * Tolerates acid and infertile soils and waterlogged soils. * Larch are commonly found in swamps, bogs, and other low-land areas.

* Historically, Sambucus racemosa (native to Europe and Asia) was commonly known as European red elder and the very similar Sambucus pubens also known as S. * Sambucus racemosa, commonly known as red elder or red elderberry, is a deciduous suckering shrub...

* Yellow fall color. * It is in flower in April, and the seeds ripen in September. * Native to mountains from Alaska to California. * A decidious Tree growing to 9 m.

* Needles to 1" long, in 2 rows forming a trough; barrel-shaped cones, 4", dark violet-black. * Native to Yunnan in southwest China and adjoining border areas in southeastern Tibet , far northeastern India , northern Myanmar , and far northwestern Vietnam...

It bears tall tapering racemes of white midsummer flowers on wiry black-purple stems, whose mildly unpleasant, medicinal smell at close range gives it the common name "Bugbane". It grows in a variety of woodland habitats, and is often found in small woodland...

Wood found buried in swamps for hundreds of years is perfectly sound and not water-logged. However, it is still the most widely used name for this species. * The common name "Atlantic White Cedar" has been rejected by the American Joint Committee on Horticultural...

It is native to eastern North America, from southern Pennsylvania south to northwest Florida and west to southern Illinois; it is most common in the lower chain of the Appalachian Mountains.