Dye Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Fort Collins

* Being a monocotyledon, it does not display any annual or growth rings so the age of the tree can only be estimated by the number of branching points before reaching the canopy. * When the bark or leaves are cut they secrete a reddish resin, one of several...

* The fruit extract of Gleditsia sinensis also has inhibitory effects on isolated cancer cell cultures. The thorns of Gleditsia sinensis are used as a medicinal herb in China and Korea and may have antitumor properties.

The plant contains flavonoids (notably rutin) that reduce capillary fragility, which might explain the plants reputation as an eye strengthener. * Rue has a long history of use as a domestic remedy, being especially valued for its strengthening action...

The sap can also be tapped by boring a hole into the middle of the plant at the base of the flowering stem. It is partly below ground. The raceme inflorescence is very tall, reaching a maximum of 4 m (12 ft).

Does best in sun, requires light, well drained soil, tolerates poor soil. * A blue ink and a dye is obtained from the petals mixed with alum-water. * A good plant for bees, butterflies and moths.

* An evergreen shrub with compound leaves, 1" violet-blue fragrant flowers in 2-3" pendulous clusters; pods 1-7"; seeds are bright red, sometimes used for necklaces, but are said to be poisonous; native to Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico.

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

* Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese hound's tongue , or Chinese forget-me-not . This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens.

It is often found in coastal areas on sandy soils. * Quercus myrtifolia, commonly known as myrtle oak, is a small, often shrubby, evergreen oak with a spreading rounded crown and smooth dark brown bark.

Strictly speaking it is a bine rather than a vine, using its own shoots to act as supports for new growth. The fragrant flower cones impart bitterness and flavor, and also have preservative qualities.

The amount of acorns produced can also vary year to year, one year there may be about 32,000 acorns and the next year there may be very few. * The Arizona White Oak is a perennial tree and may grow up to 60 ft with a diameter of 3.3 ft.

Sweet and juicy with a pleasant flavour, it makes good raw eating. * Gaultheria shallon is a leathery-leaved shrub in the heather family ( Ericaceae ), native to western North America .

* These shrubs are usually found in wooded and bushy areas, on sunny, warm and dry slopes and around forest edges. * Hippocrepis emerus or the scorpion senna is a species of perennial plant belonging to the genus Hippocrepis in the Fabaceae family.

* It is occasionally seen on the California coast where it is an introduced species and landscaping escapee. * Native to the Mediterranean region, statice (also commonly called notchleaf status) is noted for producing clusters of papery, funnel-shaped...

* 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 cordate adult leaves on fertile flowering stems exposed to full sun,...

It is obtained from the flowers according to other reports. * Linaria vulgaris ( Common Toadflax , Yellow Toadflax , or Butter-and-eggs ) is a species of toadflax ( Linaria ), native to most of Europe and northern Asia , from the United Kingdom south...

* A broad, flat-topped shrub native to northeast U.S.; has fragrant foliage, long, narrow, frondlike leaves; a nitrogen-fixer, so good for poor soils; takes sun or part shade. The leaves of the plant are linear to lanceolate, 3-15 cm long and 0.3-3 cm...

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. A sugar can be extracted from the seed.

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

* Eucalyptus cloeziana, Gympie Messmate, is a small to tall tree with rough bark on most or the whole of the trunk and larger branches. * The bark is soft, flaky, tessellated, light brown or yellow-brown, where smooth, greyish white or yellowish above.

* Big Bluestem is a perennial grass. * Big bluestem is tolerant of a wide range of soils and moisture. * 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.

It is also often grown as bonsai. Established plants are drought tolerant, succeeding in hot dry positions. * An attractive, variable plant, often with a vertical central leader, horizontal side branches, and drooping branchlets; a loose, open habit;...

* Cones can remain closed on the tree for a number of years, opening after the heat of a forest fire to scatter their seeds which then germinate and grow rapidly in the ashes of the fire.

They may grow their first side arm any time from 75–100 years of age, but some never grow any arms. It is native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Mexican State of Sonora, and the Whipple Mountains and Imperial County areas of California.

* Nandina domestica (pronounced /naen?di?n? D??m?st?k?/ ) commonly known as heavenly bamboo or sacred bamboo , is a suckering shrub in the Barberry family, Berberidaceae . It is native to eastern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan * Evergreen except...

* Bloodroot is one of many plants whose seeds are spread by ants, a process called myrmecochory. They also get the added bonus of growing in a medium made richer by the ant nest debris.

* Slash Pine is named after the "slashes" – swampy ground overgrown with trees and bushes – that constitute its habitat. * Pinus elliottii , commonly known as the Slash Pine , is a pine native to the southeastern United States , from southern South...