Dye Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Knoxville

* 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.

* Native American Californians used the hard wood for arrows, digging, spearing fish, and digging. * The Cercocarpus betuloides leaves are distinctive in that they have smooth edges from the base to about half way up, then are wavy or toothed to the rounded...

* A yellow dye is obtained from the wood. * 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,...

* Peruvian Torch ( Trichocereus peruvianus ) is found high in the Andean mountain deserts of Peru and Ecuador and is similar to the San Pedro cactus ( Trichocereus pachanoi ) which is found in the same region.

Used in Mexico for washing clothes. * An evergreen tree with compound leaves to 14", leaflets to 6"; flowers in small pendulous clusters to 8"; native to coastal areas, South Carolina to Florida.

* The crushed root has been applied to the body as an insect repellent. * A red dye is obtained from the sap of the root. Caution is advised. * The welcome wildflower of early spring; sap and root are red, hence the common name.

Clusters of bright-pink, fragrant flowers appear before or with the leaves from the axils of the previous season. Fruit distinctive, a light reddish brown when ripe, 3 lobed capsule containing 1 to 3 dark brown to black, shiny seeds 1/2 inch in diameter,...

* This is considered a noxious weed in some areas. * 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 to Spain...

Externally, they are used to treat toothache, sore throats, wounds, skin rashes and stings. * Native Hawaiians made pou (house posts), laʻau melomelo (fishing lures), and ʻoʻo (digging sticks) from ʻaʻaliʻiwood and a red dye from the fruit.

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

Its flammability (injurious to neighbors) and quick regrowth allow it to compete successfully against almost all vegetation in the Sonoran Desert region. * It was introduced in the 1930s into Arizona, United States, to provide grazing.

* A quick-growing, not to say rampant vine; can be pruned as a shrub; usually grown on a trellis for commercial production of the hops used in beer making; hops are produced on female plants; native to Eurasia, has escaped in the U.S.

* 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. * Big Bluestem is a perennial grass.

* Garden Uses Shrub borders or native plant gardens. Young twigs are noticeably yellow and stand out in winter. It is native to Missouri where it occurs in prairies, glades, dry open woods and thickets throughout the state (Steyermark).

* This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft. 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.

* A much-branched evergreen shrub; dull-green or sage-green leaves; small green flowers, male and female on separate plants; produces edible nuts, the oil from which was once used as a substitute for sperm oil; needs full sun, dry soil; native to the...

* The wood is heavy, hard and brittle. Montanus often remains under 1 metre (3.3 ft) in height because of browsing by elk and deer, but can reach 20 feet (6.1 m). * Cercocarpus montanus is common in the chaparral, on mesas and on the lower foothills of...

* The Siberian Elm is usually a small to medium-sized, often bushy, tree growing to 10 - 20 m tall, with a trunk up to 80 cm d.b.h . The tree is short-lived in temperate climates, rarely reaching more than 60 years of age, but in its native environment...

* A handsome species, one of the rarest in cultivation (rare even in its own Yalung R.valley) * A small, 8-30' tree/shrub.

* Pinus clausa ( Sand Pine , Sandhill Pine ) is a small, often shrubby tree from 5–10 m (16–33 ft), exceptionally to 21 m (69 ft) tall, found in two separate locations, one across central peninsular Florida , and the other in the western Florida panhandle...

Wood - coarse-grained, light, soft, brittle, not strong, very durable, resinous. Turpentine has a wide range of uses including as a solvent for waxes etc, for making varnish, medicinal etc.

* American Beautyberry ( Callicarpa americana ) is an open-habit, native shrub of the Southern United States which is often grown as an ornamental in gardens and yards . * The fruit is edible raw.

* Plants can produce many stems and suckers, with older stems, which can reach 5 metres (16 ft) in height, having distinctive gray bark. * Cornus racemosa ( Northern Swamp Dogwood or Gray Dogwood ) is a shrubby plant species growing to 5 m tall.

* The common name is Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it is not a fern. The leaves of the plant are linear to lanceolate, 3-15 cm long and 0.3-3 cm broad, with a modified dentate, pinnately lobed margin; they give off a sweet odor, especially...

* Gossypium hirsutum , known as Upland Cotton or Mexican Cotton , is the most widely planted species of cotton in the United States, constituting some 95% of all cotton production.

* Good for seashore planting; native to Mediterranean region. * It is a popular ornamental tree , extensively planted in parks and gardens in hot dry areas such as southern California.

* An excellent windbreak for maritime areas, it grows quite quickly and establishes well even in very windy sites. * Shiny green leaves. * Bacteria on the roots fix atmospheric nitrogen - whilst this enables the tree to grow well in quite poor soils it...