Annual Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Michigan

The species status in the New World is uncertain: it is generally considered an exotic weed; however, there is evidence that the species was in Crawford Lake deposits ( Ontario ) in 1430-89, suggesting that it reached North America in the pre-Columbian...

* A blue ink and a dye is obtained from the petals mixed with alum-water. * A hardy cool season annual with blue, pink, or white 1 1/2" flowers, Branching, slender stemmed, spreading to 10 to 12 inches.

* It is native to tropical Africa and southern India. * Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever, coughs, womb prolapse and malaria.

Ponderosa, as detailed on that page. Ponderosa subsp. * Many botanists believe that this is merely a southern outlier of the typical North Plateau race of ponderosa pine. * Pinus washoensis may be synonymous with P.

Though often known by the common name of king sago palm , or just sago palm , it is not a palm at all, but a cycad . * This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

* When the bark or leaves are cut they secrete a reddish resin, one of several sources of substances known as dragon's blood. It grows slowly, requiring about ten years to reach 1.2 metres (4 ft) in height but can grow much faster.

* It climbs by means of aerial rootlets which cling to the substrate. * The leaves are alternate, 50–100 mm long, with a 15–20 mm petiole ; they are of two types, with palmately five-lobed juvenile leaves on creeping and climbing stems, and unlobed...

* It is an evergreen subshrub or herbaceous plant growing 1 m tall. * It is native and endemic to Madagascar, but grown elsewhere as an ornamental and medicinal plant, a source of the drugs vincristineand vinblastine, used to treat cancer.

It is occasionally used as a condiment. The California varieties Styrax officinalis subsp. The inflorescence is short and few-flowered. Howard and Styrax officinalis subsp. The same species is considered to occur native to California (a Mediterranean-American...

* These trees project a sense of vigorous strength, for though not generally very large, they are robust, with thick branches and twigs, and large foliar units of very long, often drooping needles.

'Northern Pearls' is a compact cultivar that grows to 6-8' tall and features racemes (3-5" long) of 5-petaled white flowers (to 2" diameter) which bloom in early spring. Flower buds purportedly resemble white pearls, hence the cultivar name.

You'll be thrilled with the first flush of 3'' purple blooms from June to October. Growing only 20'' tall, you will be able to find several places for it in your garden. The Purple D'Oro daylily prefers full sun.

* A strong fibre obtained from the leaves is used for cordage and brushes. * It is a fan palm (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with the leaves with a long petiole terminating in a rounded fan of 10-20 leaflets; each leaf is up to 1-1.5 m long, with the leaflets...

* They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods. * Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance.

* It will yield normal sized cucumbers but not take up as much room in the garden. * This variety is perfect for growing in containers or restricted spaces.

* Bunches of the tied stems have been used as rough brooms. The species is considered to be long lived. It makes a valuable fuel and is occasionally used in the manufacture of small articles for domestic and industrial use.

* The common name is Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it is not a fern. It is native to eastern North America , from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia , and west to Minnesota .

* The leaves are cooked and used as greens. The water in which the leaves are cooked is used in making corn pudding . * The seed is used in pinole or ground into a meal and used as a thickener in making bread or mixed with flour in making bread.

It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. * The Jeffrey pine is closely related to the ponderosa pine and is similar in appearance. This gives rise to the memory device for distinguishing between them - "gentle Jeffrey and...

* Its natural habitats are dry forests and low shrublands. It is threatened by habitat destruction, mainly due to introduced grazing mammals. * Canavalia pubescens, commonly known as ʻawikiwiki or Lavafield Jack-bean, is a species of flowering plant...

The common name is large-flowered tickseed. * 3" yellow-orange flowers in midsummer; native to southern U.S. * Coreopsis grandiflora is a perennial plant species of the tickseed genus, Coreopsis, in Asteraceae.

* Thick, slightly twisted bright green 3-4 1/2" needles. * It is one of the classic bonsai subjects. * Of irregular habit, roughly conical. * Extremely salt tolerant, good for seaside planting and holding beach sand in place.

* It usually occurs as a native shrub or a medium sized tree. * The acorns usually mature around fall. It also contains fat branches and a spreading crown along with thick leaves. The amount of acorns produced can also vary year to year, one year there...

A somewhat astringent taste raw, it improves considerably when cooked and is delicious baked with a floury texture and a flavour rather like sweet potatoes. The roasted seed can be used as a coffee substitute.

* The hollow stems can be made into whistles and flutes. * Leycesteria formosa ( Himalayan Honeysuckle , Flowering Nutmeg , Himalaya Nutmeg or Pheasant Berry ) is a deciduous shrub in the family Caprifoliaceae , native to the Himalaya and southwestern...

Hicoria floridana) the scrub hickory, is a tree native to the southeastern United States, where it is endemic in central Florida. * The kernel is sweet, though the shell is thick. * Although it can grow to the height of 25 meters, many specimens are seen...

The flowers are small, greenish-yellow, with 5–6 sepals and no petals. The fruit is an acorn-shaped ovoid, three-angled capsule 1–2 centimetres (0.39–0.79 in) long, partly enclosed at the base by the sepals.