Drought Tolerant Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Los Angeles

* Shadscale fruits and leaves provide important winter browse for both domestic livestock and native herbivores. * 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.

* Forms thickets on shallow soil, seldom a single tree. * A shrub or small tree with light gray, flaking bark. * Found mostly on flat-topped limestone hills.

* The stems of most members ofthis genus contain the alkaloid ephedrine and are valuable in the treatment of asthma and many other complaints of therespiratory system. This shrub is made up of many erect bright green twigs.

* The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed). It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant. This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western...

* The Interior Live Oak ( Quercus wislizeni ) is an evergeen oak , highly variable and often shrubby, found in areas of California in the United States . It also occurs south into northern Baja California in Mexico .

The tree is generally accepted to be the hardiest evergreen oak, able to withstand very cold winters with minimal leaf burn in areas as cold as USDA zone 6a. It can reach a height of 20-40 ft.

* This species is related to Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa pine), and included in the same subsection Ponderosae. * Pinus durangensis, the Durango pine, is a pine tree species endemic to the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range of Northwestern Mexico.

* Ecologically very similar to P. Engelmann first named the species Pinus macrophylla, but this name had already been used for another pine, so it had to be renamed; this was done by the French botanist Carriere, who chose to honour Engelmann.

* The drought tolerance of the Gambel oak combined with the cold tolerance of the bur oak make this hybrid one the of the hardiest oaks available. * The Bur-gambel oak is a Bur oak hybrid which is vigorous, fast growing, and produces heavy crops of acorns...

* Rudbeckia fulgida are perennial herbaceous plants growing up to 120 cm tall, growing from rosettes that develop at the end of stolons. Stems are glabrous or moderately covered in hirsute hairs with spreading branches.

* Pinus aristata is a species of pine native to the United States . It appears in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and northern New Mexico , with an isolated population in the San Francisco Peaks in Arizona .

* Myrtle in a wedding bouquet is a general European custom. * The plant is very tolerant of regular clipping and can be grown as a hedge. * Myrtus communis, the Common Myrtle, is used in the islands of Sardinia and Corsica to produce an aromatic liqueur...

* The fruit can also be used for making pies, preserves etc, and can be dried for later use. The fruit is about 8mm in diameter and is borne in small clusters. * It is named after David Douglas , who collected seed from the plant during his botanical...

The trees are beautiful in the spring with white blooms and in the fall the dark berries appear. Good tree for beginners because the stems are flexible and responsive to shaping. A black dye can also be obtained from the fruit as well as an ink.

* Chloris virgata is a species of grass known by the common names feather fingergrass and feather windmillgrass . It is native to many of the warmer temperate, subtropical, and tropical regions of the world, including parts of Eurasia, Africa, and the...

The leaves are long-stalked and uniquely divided into two leaflets about 1 1/2 inches long. Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft.

Giant chinkapin (Castanopsis chrysophylla), also called golden chinkapin, giant evergreen-chinkapin, and goldenleaf chestnut, is an interesting hardwood species in a landscape dominated by coniferous forests.

The needles are about the same length as on P. Pseudostrobus and the bark resembles P. Durangensis but they are attached to the branch like on P. Arizonica, characters distinguishing the varieties vary continuously, thus treatment at the species rank...

* The species was first formally described by Robert Brown in 1812 in Hortus Kewensis. These are followed by cylindrical pods that are 3 to 5 cm in length. * It is a prostrate or twining shrub which can spread to a width of 1.5 metres and has light green...

It is the only species of Erythrina that naturally occurs there. * Wiliwili, with the scientific name Erythrina sandwicensis, is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae that is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.

* Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB.

* Myrtle in a wedding bouquet is a general European custom. * The plant is very tolerant of regular clipping and can be grown as a hedge. * Myrtus communis, the Common Myrtle, is used in the islands of Sardinia and Corsica to produce an aromatic liqueur...

* The species was first formally described by Robert Brown in 1812 in Hortus Kewensis. These are followed by cylindrical pods that are 3 to 5 cm in length. * It is a prostrate or twining shrub which can spread to a width of 1.5 metres and has light green...

* Caragana arborescens , or Caragana or Siberian peashrub or Siberian peashrub , is a species of legume . It is a shrub growing to heights of 12 feet or more and is a perennial . The plant is native to Siberia and parts of China and neighboring Mongolia...

Pacific race pines have relatively large needles, cones, and seeds, and are rapid growing and least cold hardy in tests to date. * In ponderosa pine forests, timber production, livestock grazing, and recreation are the principal land uses.

* It also can provide wood pulp and lumber. * Pinus virginiana ( Virginia Pine , Scrub Pine , Jersey Pine ) is a medium-sized tree , often found on poorer soils from Long Island in southern New York south through the Appalachian Mountains to western Tennessee...

* Native to semiconsolidated sand dunes; 900-2400 m. It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion by wind and rain.