Acid Loving Plant Seeds For Sale In Pennsylvania

* Externally it is a very beneficial treatment for a variety of skin complaints, wounds, sores, burns, boils etc and is used in the form of liniment plasters, poultices, herbal steam baths and inhalers.

* A shrub or tree, resembling S. Pseudocamellia, which see, but with longer leaves, smaller flowers (in June and July), and petals that are reddish at the base; needs acid soil; native to Japan.

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

* Sarracenia minor , also known as the Hooded pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia . Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World .

* It is native to the eastern United States, where it can be found in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. It is dioecious, with male and female reproductive parts on separate plants.

The edges of the lobes are fringed by stiff hair-like protrusions or cilia, which mesh together and prevent large prey from escaping. Well known and especially interesting for children.

The leaves do roughly resemble giant oak leaves being shiny dark green, nice purple, red, or orangish brown in fall. * Hydrangea quercifolia ( Oakleaf hydrangea ) is a species of hydrangea native to the southeastern United States , from North Carolina...

Plants are very cold-hardy, tolerating temperatures down to about -30°c. Its range stretches from southern Maine south to northern Florida , and west to Indiana and Louisiana . Mountain-laurel is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania .

It is also called the “rose of winter.” * An edible oil is obtained from the seed. It is also the official state flower of Alabama . * The parent of many camellia cultivars; shiny leathery dark green leaves; flowers red, white, or pink, often produced...

* Small, delicate plant forms a rounded mound, often loose and open; evergreen; 3" flowers in May, parents of this strain have flowers in variations of pink and purple; acid soil, good drainage; in the U.S. needs light shade in the North, more shade in...

Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World . The red petals are long and strap-like, and dangle over the umbrella-like style of the flower, which is held upside down at the end of a 50 cm long scape.

* A 10-year-old sapling will stand about 5 m (16 ft) tall. Used commercially like Q. * The acorns of the chestnut oak are 1.5–3 cm long and 1–2 cm broad, among the largest of native American oaks, surpassed in size only by the bur oak and possibly...

* It has attractive small, deep crimson-pink flowers that occur early summer. * A very ornamental and variable plant. * Sheep laurel is a very poisonous narcotic plant the leaves of which were at one time used by some native North American Indian tribes...

The showy part of the floral display, however, is the white, pink or rose sepals that become petal-like and reminiscent of poinsettias. Flowers are yellowish-green and tubular with five, reflexed lobes.

* It has attractive small, deep crimson-pink flowers that occur early summer. * A very ornamental and variable plant. * Sheep laurel is a very poisonous narcotic plant the leaves of which were at one time used by some native North American Indian tribes...

* Northern Highbush Blueberry ( Vaccinium corymbosum ) is a species of blueberry native to eastern North America , growing from Nova Scotia and Ontario south to Alabama , and west to Wisconsin .

* The resins are obtained by tapping the trunk, or by destructive distillation of the wood. The knots contain so much resin that they resist rot. * Pitch can also be obtained from the resin and is used for waterproofing, as a wood preservative etc.

* Landscape use: naturalizing borders with other ericaceous plants facer plants with taller plants shady bank stabilization * Fall Foliage: reddish, bronze winter color * An infusion of the leaves and stems has been used to bathe itchy skin.

* Cliftonia monophylla ( Buck-wheat tree , Buckwheat tree , Titi ) is a tree native to the United States . It burns with a clear, bright flame and is valued as a fuel. * The wood is heavy, close-grained, moderately hard, brittle, not strong.

* Bark peels off in sheets, revealing reddish-brown underbark; may grow 1-2' a year; shiny green leaf changing to yellow in fall; variable; likes rich, moist, acid soil; good for for wet spots; native to eastern U.S.

* An extract from fruit called myricerone blocks a receptor for the peptide, endothelin, an important mediator of blood vessel constriction, indicating potential for drug development.

* The Jack Pine ( Pinus banksiana ) is a North American pine with its native range in Canada east of the Rocky Mountains from Northwest Territories to Nova Scotia , and the northeast of the United States from Minnesota to Maine , with the southernmost...

* 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.

* An erect, clump-forming perennial which features pale pink to white flowers enclosed in spiny, reddish-purple bracts and arranged in vertical rows on substantial flower spikes rising well above the foliage to 3-4' tall.

* A beautiful very vigorous variety well know for its extreme cold hardiness.

Extremely winter hardy (grows in the wild as far north as Quebec) and is one of the parents of the Northern Lights hybrids developed by the University of Minnesota. Bright green foliage (grayish woolly beneath) turns bronzish in fall.

* Ilex mucronata is a deciduous shrub growing to 3 m (rarely 4 m) tall. The fruit is a red drupe 6–7 mm diameter containing three to five pits The flowers are inconspicuous, whitish to greenish-yellow, produced on slender peduncles 25 mm or more long;...