Drought Tolerant Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Grand Rapids

Grows well in heavy clay soils. * The species, from central Europe and Russia, has blue-purple, lavender, or white flowers, but there are dozens of cultivars, in a varied range of splendid blues, purples, pinks, and whites, including some of the most...

* Cornflowers were also used in the funeral wreath made for Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Thin out to 8 to 12 inches apart. * The flowers are often used in dried-flower arrangements because they retain their colour well.

* The flowers are the most striking feature, being sweetly fragrant white trumpets up to 20 cm (8 inches) long, often tinted purple, especially at the margin. States, as far north as southern Utah, in open land with well-drained soils.

The fruit is up to 18mm long, it has a thin pulp and contains 1 - 3 rounded seeds. * The fruit can be used as a pickle like olives. * Grown for its masses of glorious, delicate, white, slightly fragrant flowers in May; of open, spreading habit; native...

* Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun. This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens. * Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese...

* 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. * The leaves are cooked and used as greens. * Shadscale fruits and leaves provide important winter browse for both domestic...

* Common in thickets and in thin secondary forests in lowlands and low mountains of central and southern Japan. The red seed pods are brilliant, opening to revel shiny black seeds.

Elliptic, serrate, pale green leaves (to 3" long) turn yellow in fall. '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.

* The Navajo considered it to be a "life medicine", chewed it for toothaches, and poured an infusion into ears for earaches. * Yarrow has a high reputation and is widely employed in herbal medicine, administered both internally and externally.

* Orange flowers in late summer; grows well in dry soil; native to eastern U.S. * Pleurisy root is a bitter, nutty-flavoured tonic herb that increases perspiration, relieves spasms and acts as an expectorant.

Redidivus (Torrey) H. * A highly perfumed balsamic gum is obtained from the branches and stems. It is the "official" source of styrax , an herbal medicine known from ancient times.

* The unusually shaped pods are often gathered, cleaned and decorated for use on Christmas trees and in dried arrangements. * Water extract of Jacaranda mimosifolia shows higher antimicrobial action against Bacillus cereus and Escherichia coli than gentamicin...

It is endemic to Australia, occurring in every mainland state except South Australia. * Mirbelia is a plant genus belonging to the Fabaceae family.

* This plant occurs in northeastern Spain and in central Mediterranean countries up to northern Europe and to Asia Minor and Tunisia. They can be found at an altitude of 0–1,850 metres (0–6,070 ft).

The compound leaves of this plant appear leaden due to their dense hairiness. This plant can be found growing in well drained soils of prairies, bluffs, and open woodlands. * The roots can grow deeper than 4 feet (1.2m).

* It has bright yellow latex, and though poisonous to grazing animals, is rarely eaten, but has been used medicinally by many people including those in its native area, the Natives of the western US and parts of Mexico.

Plants normally grow with one unbranched stem in the wild, but often produce multi-stemmed clumps in gardens. * The flower heads are from ¾ to 3 inches (2 to 7.6 cm) wide with pale rose-purple or nearly white colored petals.

A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB. The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern Ontario it occurs farther...

The fruit is a red berry. * Arctostaphylos uva-ursi is a small procumbent woody groundcover shrub 5–30 cm high. It is valuable for checking soil erosion on watersheds. * The dried leaves have been used for smoking as an alternative to tobacco.

* A good bee plant. * Thistley plants for full sun and poor dry soil; the half-inch flower heads, also like thistles, can be a fine metallic blue or blue purple; flowers in mid to late summer; in rich soil the plants grow too fast and need staking; may...

* Seed germination appears to be dependent on about a 2-week period of moistened seed at a time when soil temperatures have reached 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Depending on soil and moisture conditions, it grows to a height of 1 – 3m (3 – 10 ft) .

* In cultivation they tend to grow on a single stem that is often leaning and bare towards the bottom, but with dense foliage on the upper half. Fortunei is a shrub or small tree growing to as high as 20 m with a diameter at breast height of about 20...

* Before the invention of barbed wire in the 1880's, the Osage Orange was planted in hedges to contain farm animals. In the axil of every growing leaf is found a growing spine which when mature is about 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, and rather formidable.

Prick out the seedlings into individual pots as soon as they are large enough to handle and grow them on in the greenhouse for at least their first winter. * Myrtus communis, the Common Myrtle, is used in the islands of Sardinia and Corsica to produce...

The inner bark is harvested in the spring from the main trunk and from larger branches, it is then dried and powdered for use as required. The fruit is an oval winged samara 20 mm long and containing a single, central seed .

The dark-green leaves are usually small, 2.5-7 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, thick and often spiny-toothed, particularly on young trees. * The Interior Live Oak is classified in the red oak section (Quercus sect.

* The Chinese make fences around their compounds with interlaced branches of this plant.These branches take root and form a very graceful hedge. * Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish...