Herbaceous Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In District Of Columbia

Stems are glabrous or moderately covered in hirsute hairs with spreading branches. The upper surfaces of the leaves are glabrous or have hirsute to strigose hairs. The leaf bases are attenuate to cordate in shape and the margins of the leaves are usually...

* A herbaceous, perennial grass, very winter hardy, provides wildlife habitat, erosion control and ground cover. It is a nutritious and palatable forage grass for domestic and wild animals.

* A perennial weed, to most, with long curly leaves; develops a deep taproot; seed turns brown and remains conspicuous in winter; birdfood, native to Europe and Asia and common in North America.

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

* A herbaceous, perennial grass, very winter hardy, provides wildlife habitat, erosion control and ground cover. It is a nutritious and palatable forage grass for domestic and wild animals.

The plant is a trailer or weak climber, supported by tendrils, growing to 1.2 m tall. * The root is eaten cooked or raw. * Lathyrus tuberosus is a perennial plant with edible tubers 3 to 5 cm (1.2 to 2.0 in) long attached to its roots.

Stems sulcate, pubescent or glabrescent. The species grow to between 0.5-2 m tall, with large inflorescences of small five-petalled flowers, creamy-white to pink-tinged in most species, dark pink in F.

* A fibre obtained from the stems is used in papermaking. They are useful in the treatment of chest complaints. * A nutritious starch is obtained from the root. * It was imported into Europe from southwestern China during, or possibly before, the 15th...

It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer. Growing up to a meter tall, it lives in zones 4 to 9 in moist to wet soils. * The Great Blue Lobelia ( Lobelia siphilitica ) is a species within the Campanulaceae family.

* This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown. * Tolerant of constant cutting, this plant is often grown in lawns.

It has been widely introduced worldwide as a pasture crop, and is now also common in most grassy areas of North America and New Zealand. Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay.

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

* Succeeds in fresh or salt water marshes and in ordinary garden soil. * Of upright, arching form; green leaves; flowers in late summer, flowering section of spike to 15" long; likes full sun or part shade, rich soil; tolerates salt, wet conditions; native...

Arctium lappa is the main species used, though this species has similar properties. * Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in both Chinese and Western herbal medicine. This plant is native to Europe, but is now widespread throughout most of...

Common oat AVSA Summary Duration Annual Growth Habit Graminoid Native Status L48 (I), AK (I), HI (I), PR (I), CAN (W), GL (W), SPM (W) Federal T/E Status National Wetland Indicator Morphology/Physiology Active Growth Period Spring and Summer After Harvest...

Obtusifolia) and Coffee Senna (S. Two other species, Sicklepod (S. * Clusters of light yellow to orange flowers atop a sparsely branched perennial or in axils of compound leaves. Southern Wild Senna (S.

It can be drunk hot or cold. * A refreshing tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves, flowers and stems. * Perennial; small yellow flowers; source of a golden-yellow dye. * Agrimonia eupatoria is a species of agrimony that is often referred to as common...

The seeds are purple, giving the grass its common name. * Tall redtop or Purple-top is a 2 1/2-7 ft. The seeds are also oily, leading to its other common name, "greasegrass". Tall perennial grass with drooping branches bearing widely spaced reddish-purple...

* The Interior Live Oak is classified in the red oak section (Quercus sect. 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...

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.

* Alopecurus arundinaceus ( Creeping meadow foxtail , Creeping foxtail ) is a rhizomatous perennial species in the Grass family ( Poaceae ). * Native to Eurasia and widely introduced elsewhere, this sod forming grass is useful as a forage and for erosion...

* It is considered a good foraging grass for livestock and is also good for erosion control. * The small oat-like seeds develop on the side of the stalk. * The grass is also drought- and cold-tolerant and is hardy in zones 4-9.

* This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns. * This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China.

* Modern research has shown that it contains the substance 'taxol' in its shoots and bark. * It ranges from southernmost Alaska south to central California , mostly in the Pacific Coast Ranges , but with an isolated disjunct population in southeast British...

It is native to Europe, Asia and northern Africa, but is widely cultivated and naturalised around the world. * It has a dark green color, slower growth and excellent disease resistance, especially to grey leaf spot.

* Trifolium campestre , commonly known as Hop Trefoil and Low Hop Clover , is a species of clover native to Europe and western Asia , growing in most areas, but specifically thriving on dry, sandy grassland habitats, as well as in fields, woodland margins,...

The seed can be dried and ground into a powder which is added to cereals and used in making bread, pies etc. Very popular in America, the seed is sweet and well-flavoured with a thin shell.