Dye Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Virginia

* The fruit is a dark purple to black berry 3–5 mm diameter, produced in drooping clusters in the fall. The berries and flowers are edible. * Fruit is attractive to wildlife. * Stems can be hollowed out and used for spouts, musical instruments, and...

Wood - close-grained, soft, brittle. The bark can also be made into a string. The bark is used to ornament baskets and is also split into strips and used for making baskets that are watertight and resist decay.

Wood - close-grained, soft, brittle. The bark can also be made into a string. The bark is used to ornament baskets and is also split into strips and used for making baskets that are watertight and resist decay.

It can be drunk hot or cold. It was formerly very popular either on its own or added to China tea, having a peculiar delicacy and aroma. * Perennial; small yellow flowers; source of a golden-yellow dye.

* The leaves and bark have been used medicinally. * Smaller and more rounded than P. * As a very large and wide tree with broad, thick leaves that tend to orient horizontally, it is especially prized for the shade and coolness it provides during the hot...

* Shrubs evergreen, 1–3 m tall. Petiole 4–8 mm, initially densely yellow tomentose, subglabrous when old; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–5 mm, sparsely tomentose or glabrescent at fruiting; leaf blade obovate to elliptic, 2–4.5 × 1.2–2.8 cm,...

The leaves are gray-green and pale and fuzzy underneath, and several centimeters long. * It is grown elsewhere as an ornamental . * The fruit has a bitter-sweet flavour, tasting like an over-ripe banana.

* 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.

* Annatto, obtained from the oily arils of the seeds is the world's second most important (after caramel) natural colorant (Mercadante and Pfander 1998), yielding yellow to red colors.

* Rubus spectabilis ( Salmonberry ) is a species of Rubus native to the west coast of North America from west central Alaska to California . * The fruit is juicy with a very good flavour.

It is a small flowering tree that grows 15-20' tall. * The fruit has a bitter-sweet flavour, tasting like an over-ripe banana. * Cornus capitata is a species of dogwood known by the common names Bentham's cornel , Himalayan flowering dogwood , and evergreen...

Has some nice ornamental features (shiny dark green summer foliage, flower panicles in late summer, fruiting clusters in fall and excellent fall foliage color), but is probably too weedy and aggressive for shrub borders or foundations.

The branches were used as brooms, and the twigs were used to fasten western skunk cabbage leaves into berry baskets. The bright red, acidic berries were used extensively for food throughout the year.

* 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. The whole plant can be used at much lower concentrations than the isolated constituents...

* It can be grown a considerable distance north of its natural range if given conditions favorable to its growth. * The fruit is eaten by wildlife, helping disperse the seeds. * The very large showy white flowers and large-leaved, coarse-textured foliage...

* In cooler, more exposed areas, scrub oak is usually a small, compact shrub, but in warm or sheltered areas the plant can spread out and grow several meters high. * The California Scrub Oak ( Quercus berberidifolia ) is a small evergreen or semi-evergreen...

The leaves are an aromatic pleasant tasting tonic herb that reduces spasms, expels phlegm and lowers fevers. * Eriodictyon californicum is a shrub growing one to three meters tall, typically found in clonal stands.

Highly recommended for zones 5 and 6. * The New Mexico sources of Abies concolor will be intermediate between the Arizona and the Colorado. Therefore a little bluer in color than the Colorado and a little more cold hardy than the Arizona.

* It is similar to Chamaecrista fasciculata except that the leaves are smaller. * Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or Wild Sensitive Plant) is a herbaceous species of legume widely distributed through the temperate...

Thimbleberry jam is made by combining equal volumes of berries and sugar and boiling the mixture for two minutes before packing it into jars. * Rubus parviflorus typically grows along roadsides, railroad tracks, and in forest clearings, commonly appearing...

* The leaves are very rich in vitamins and minerals, especially iron and the vitamins A and C. * Curled Dock ( Rumex crispus ), also known as Curly Dock, Yellow Dock, Sour Dock, Narrow Dock , sometimes as "narrow-leaved dock" (which properly refers to...

The leaves are stiff, sharp and needle-like, 15–25 mm long, flattened in cross-section, dark glaucous blue-green above with two or three thin lines of stomata , and blue-white below with two dense bands of stomata.The cones are pendulous, slender cylindrical,...

* Easily grown in a moisture retentive but well-drained loamy soil of at least moderate quality. * Often cultivated for its edible fruit in N. * It is native to western North America, including British Columbia and much of the western United States.

* In cooler, more exposed areas, scrub oak is usually a small, compact shrub, but in warm or sheltered areas the plant can spread out and grow several meters high. * The California Scrub Oak ( Quercus berberidifolia ) is a small evergreen or semi-evergreen...

It is known in some areas as a weed, for example, in alfalfa fields in the southwestern United States. It sometimes forms tufts, and may or may not spread via stolons . * It is a hardy grass which can grow in many types of habitat, including disturbed...

* Myrtle in a wedding bouquet is a general European custom. * Because of its elegance of habit, appealing odour, and amenity to clipping by the topiarius, as much as for sacred associations, the myrtle was an indispensable feature of Roman gardens.

It is most common in chaparral habitat in central Arizona , through the transition zone of the Mogollon Rim – White Mountains , but also southeast Arizona in the Madrean Sky Island mountain ranges of sky islands .