Herbaceous Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Sacramento

* A form with reddish-purple flowers, otherwise similar to the species, which see.

* Requires a well-drained sandy soil and a sunny position. Established plants are drought tolerant. * The leaves are used for flavouring rice dumplings.

* Works well in a perennial border or container in either full sun or partial shade. * It is native to New Zealand where it grows on sand dunes proving its drought and salt tolerance.

Angustifolia , but plants often grow taller, ranging from 1.5 to 2.5 ft (45 to 75 cm) tall, with some growing 3 feet (90 cm) or more tall. Plants normally grow with one unbranched stem in the wild, but often produce multi-stemmed clumps in gardens.

The stems grow slowly and often tightly together, eventually reaching 2-5 m tall with a trunk diameter of 20-25 cm. The whole leaf can be used in weaving. Requires very good drainage with abundant moisture in the summer and a sunny position.

You'll be thrilled with the first flush of 3'' purple blooms from June to October. The Purple D'Oro daylily prefers full sun. Growing only 20'' tall, you will be able to find several places for it in your garden.

* Established plants are drought tolerant. * Thistley plants for full sun and poor dry soil; the half-inch flower heads, also like thistles, can be a fine metallic blue or blue purple; flowers in mid to late summer; in rich soil the plants grow too fast...

Indiangrass is a perennial bunchgrass , prominent in tallgrass prairie , along with big bluestem ( Andropogon gerardii ), little bluestem ( Schizachyrium scoparium ), and switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ).

* Aquilegia caerulea is the state flower of Colorado. * It is also an ornamental plant in gardens, with numerous cultivars selected for different flower colors. * Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana...

* A perennial, often grows into an impressive clump with beautiful silvery plumes, especially with female plants; native to southern South America. * A fibre obtained from the leaves is used for making paper.

It is native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States from far eastern California to southwest Colorado , Rio Grande New Mexico , to west Texas , where it grows in woodland, chaparral , forest, and other habitat.

It is a plant of thin soils and can be found growing on sandy-soiled heaths, rocky outcrops, hills, banks, roadsides and riverside sand banks. * The strongly scented flowers are either lilac, pink-purple, magenta, or a rare white, all 4–6 mm long and...

Gleditsia sinensis has been used in China for at least 2000 years as a detergent. A lupane acid extracted from the thorns showed in vitro anti-HIV activity. * The pod is used as a soap substitute.

It is native to Africa , Asia and Europe and is commonly used throughout the United States and Canada for erosion control , roadside planting and soil rehabilitation. * Securigera varia , commonly known as Crown Vetch or Purple Crown Vetch , is a low-growing...

Besides mescaline, it also contains varying phenethylamines and other substances in minimal proportions * Today it is still used by Curanderos (medicine men) of northern Peru. * The human use of the cactus dates back thousands of years to the northern...

* Rue has a long history of use as a domestic remedy, being especially valued for its strengthening action on the eyes. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant in gardens , especially because of its bluish leaves, and also sometimes for its tolerance...

* Many botanists believe that this is merely a southern outlier of the typical North Plateau race of ponderosa pine. Ponderosa is distinguishable in the field and certainly occurs at the type locality (Mount Rose, Nevada).

The stiff-stemmed, upright growth is highly rated for wildlife nesting, brood rearing and winter cover habitat. The stiff straw is exceptional as field borders and wind barriers and its extensive root system provides an excellent stabilizing force for...

* An easily grown and very tolerant plant, it succeeds in most positions in any good soil in sun or partial shade. Succeeds in dense shade. Prefers a moist soil but succeeds in dry soils and, once established, is drought tolerant.

* It is planted as a specimen tree or in mass screenings. Mice, voles, shrews, and chipmunks consumed an estimated 65 percent of a Douglas fir seed crop following dispersal in western Oregon.

The leaves have blades that are lanceolate to broadly ovate or elliptic in shape with out lobes. The leaf bases are attenuate to cordate in shape and the margins of the leaves are usually entire or serrate, or sometimes lacerate.

Seeds should produce mostly blue flowers, but may show some breaks to colors of reds, yellows and bicolors. This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen.

* Papaver orientale ( Oriental poppy ) is a perennial flowering plant native to the Caucasus, northeastern Turkey, and northern Iran. * The young seed heads are used as a condiment, they are hot and acrid.

The species occurs naturally in every State in the continental United States, except for Oregon, Washington, and California . * Switchgrass is one of the dominant species of the central North American tallgrass prairie and can be found in remnant prairies...

Flower buds purportedly resemble white pearls, hence the cultivar name. 'Northern Pearls' is a compact cultivar that grows to 6-8' tall and features racemes (3-5" long) of 5-petaled white flowers (to 2" diameter) which bloom in early spring.

* Although purslane is considered a weed in the United States, it may be eaten as a leaf vegetable. * It has an extensive old-world distribution extending from North Africa through the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent to Malesia and Australasia...

* The fruit can be used as a pickle like olives. The fruit is up to 18mm long, it has a thin pulp and contains 1 - 3 rounded seeds. * Grown for its masses of glorious, delicate, white, slightly fragrant flowers in May; of open, spreading habit; native...