Dye Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Seattle

Ligustrum vulgare are hardy plants and tolerate temperatures down to 20 degrees F. * A bluish-green dye is obtained from the berries, it is more permanent than most greens. Also known as The Common or European Privel, this tree is often used as a hedge.

* It is a large shrub or small tree 3-12 m tall with smooth grey bark even in old age. * It is sometimes used for afforestation on infertile soils which it enriches by means of its nitrogen-fixing nodules, while not growing large enough to compete with...

It generally occurs in foothills , being most abundant in the lower altitudes of the Sierra Nevada , but also widespread in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the San Gabriel Mountains .

* The dried flower heads are used for carding wool and as a clothes brush for raising the nap on woollen cloth. Sativus) was formerly widely used in textile processing, providing a natural comb for cleaning, aligning and raising the nap on fabrics, particularly...

It is considered a noxious weed in the state of Washington and seems to be tolerated most others. The inflated bladder like flowers are interesting. It is pollinated by evening flying insects and provides seed as food for finches in the winter.

* Casuarina cunninghamiana - River Oak , River She-oak , Creek Oak or Fire Oak is a species of Casuarina , native to New South Wales and Queensland , Australia . Cones are small, rectangular and about 1 centimetre across.

A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB. * The bark is cathartic, febrifuge and tonic. The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern...

* An infusion of the dried powdered herb can be used as an antiseptic. It is often grown as an ornamental in flower gardens. It typically is one of the first plants to colonize an area after disturbance (such as fire) and rarely persists once shrubs and...

* Fire cherry or pin cherry is a slender, sometimes shrubby, tree, 35-50 ft. Fine-textured, bright red branches; reddish to yellow-orange, mature bark; flat-topped clusters of white flowers; and bright red fruit are some of the plant's attributes.

This fungal disease was accidentally introduced from Europe into North America, where it has caused severe mortality in the American native white pines (e.g. western white pine, sugar pine, whitebark pine) in many areas.

* Cornus capitata is a species of dogwood known by the common names Bentham's cornel , Himalayan flowering dogwood , and evergreen dogwood . The leaves are gray-green and pale and fuzzy underneath, and several centimeters long.

Betula is the genus for birch, and the species name refers to the birch-like leaves. * The wood of the shrub extremely hard and reddish, from which the common name comes. * This shrub has a typical size of three to five meters - 9-15 feet in height.

It is one of two honeysuckles native to Britain, the other being the Common Honeysuckle ( Lonicera periclymenum ). * Lonicera xylosteum , commonly known as Fly honeysuckle , European Fly Honeysuckle , Dwarf Honeysuckle or Fly Woodbine is a deciduous shrub.

* Symphoricarpos occidentalis is a woody species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family , commonly called Western snowberry or Wolfberry (the latter not to be confused with the Lycium species of the same name).

* It is rarely a predominant tree, but it grows in association with many other species. The name comes from the resemblance of the leaves to those of a chestnut or chinquapin. * Chinkapin oak can be separated from Q.

* Vaccinium arboreum ( Sparkleberry or Farkleberry ) is a species of Vaccinium native to the southeastern United States , from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri , and south to Florida and eastern Texas .

It is native from New York to Nebraska south to Mexico and Florida. Frangula caroliniana ), the Carolina Buckthorn , is an upright shrub or small tree native to the Southeastern United States .

The shoots are orange-brown, with dense pubescence about 1 mm long. The crown is a neat slender conic shape in young trees with a tilted or drooping lead shoot, becoming cylindric in older trees.

It is the type species of the subgenus Padus with flowers in racemes , which are hermaphroditic and pollinated by bees and flies; it is a deciduous small tree or large shrub 8–16 m tall.

* The resin is used internally in propriety mixtures to treat coughs. * Needles very aromatic; symmetrical, cone-shaped habit, especially when young; prefers cool, moist conditions.

The flowers are pink, borne in summer. * Rosa palustris is a shrub with alternate, pinnately compound leaves , on thorny stems.

) is a species of honeysuckle native to mountain forests of Central and Southern Europe , sometimes cultivated as ornamental plant outside its native range. Schmidt, which is native to Sakhalin , Kurile Islands , Hokkaido and Honshu , is sometimes considered...

* Myrtle oak features shiny, leathery leaves (to 2” long) which are dark green above and yellow-green to orange-brown beneath. Untoothed margins are rolled under. It has leaves with no teeth or lobes, hairless on the upperside and also on the underside...

* The specific epithet, menziesii, is after Archibald Menzies, a Scottish physician and rival naturalist to David Douglas. * Douglas fir seeds are an extremely important food for small mammals.

* The bark or leaves of the plant were brewed for a bitter cold remedy, made as tea or smoked. The leaves are ovate to oblong-elliptic, 9-millimetre (0.35 in) to 30-millimetre (1.2 in) long, and 4-millimetre (0.16 in) to 16-millimetre (0.63 in) wide,...

* Easily grown in a good well-drained loamy soil in sun or semi-shade[ * Black raspberries are high in anthocyanins. This has led to their being very useful as natural dyes. * The common wild black raspberry; 1/2" white flowers followed by clusters of...

* A symmetrically pyramidal tree with lustrous dark green needles that are very aromatic. * The original Cook strain of Balsam Fir was selected due to the blue tinge of the needles.