Herbaceous Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Minnesota

Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay. * A low growing, persistent, perennial, cool season legume. * White clover ( Trifolium repens ) is a species of clover native to Europe , North Africa , and West Asia .

* It is considered a good foraging grass for livestock and is also good for erosion control. * Bouteloua curtipendula , commonly known as Sideoats Grama , is a perennial short prairie grass that is native throughout the temperate and tropical New World...

The upper surfaces of the leaves are glabrous or have hirsute to strigose hairs. The leaves have blades that are lanceolate to broadly ovate or elliptic in shape with out lobes. * Rudbeckia fulgida are perennial herbaceous plants growing up to 120 cm...

* The seeds are "negatively photoblastic", or photodormant, and will only germinate in darkness. * It was originally native to the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico, but it is now used in many places in agriculture as a cover crop, a bee...

* This carex is common throughout southern and central Missouri in the moist soil beside ponds, streams and spring branches and in calcium-rich swampy meadows. * This sedge is less prone to summer dieback and remains attractive during warm weather.

* A good butterfly plant. * Phlox paniculata (garden phlox or perennial phlox) is a species of flowering plant in the family Polemoniaceae, native to the eastern United States, but extensively cultivated as an ornamental plant.

It is hardy to zone 5 and is not frost tender. * Lolium multiflorum ( Italian ryegrass , annual ryegrass ) is a ryegrass native to temperate Europe , although the precise location of its origin is unknown.

* It is an annual plant capable of rapid plant movement—its leaflets fold together when touched. * It is similar to Chamaecrista fasciculata except that the leaves are smaller. * Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or...

It is typically found in moister sites than Canadian wildrye, and will tolerate more shading. * It is extremely palatable to livestock and will decrease without proper grazing management.It spreads via seed and tillering.

Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from...

* Lolium perenne, common name perennial rye-grass or English ryegrass or winter ryegrass, is a grass from the family Poaceae. The leaves are dark green, smooth and glossy on the lower surface, with untoothed parallel sides and prominent parallel veins...

Rubra), native to North America. 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 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.

Showy, bright, rose-purple flowers with orange-yellow centers bloom in profusion at the tips of the leafy branches. * Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (formerly Aster novae-angliae), commonly known as the New England aster, is a flowering herbaceous perennial...

For these reasons, it is used as a green manure crop. The leaves are alternate, trifoliate (with three leaflets), each leaflet 15–30 mm long and 8–15 mm broad, green with a characteristic pale crescent in the outer half of the leaf; the petiole is...

* The root is eaten cooked or raw. Sweet and starchy, it is delicious when baked with a flavour that is somewhat like a sweet potato. Unfortunately, yields are rather low and so the plant is only worthwhile growing as a taste treat, not as a staple crop.

The seed can take 4 weeks or more to germinate. The fruit is about 15mm in diameter. Tolerates semi-shade though fruit production will be reduced. * Prefers a fertile, well-drained, moisture retentive soil in a sunny position.

* Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB.

Cerifera will also provide habitat for the Northern Bobwhite Quail. Specimens in drier and sandier areas are shrub-like, have rhizomes and smaller leaves than usual. This is most rapid in the first season after a fire.

* The red anthocyanin constituent of the flowers is used as a litmus. They are useful in the treatment of chest complaints. * A refreshing tea is made from the flower petals. * The flowers are demulcent, diuretic and emollient.

A homeopathic remedy is made from the plant. * Clematis recta , the Erect Clematis or Ground virginsbower , is a species of Clematis unusual in that it is a free-standing shrub rather than a climbing plant .

Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from...

* The cooked seed can be used as a rice substitute. * Scirpus cyperinus, commonly called woolgrass, is a grass-like, rhizomatous, emergent aquatic perennial of the sedge family that grows in dense slowly-spreading tussocks of arching basal green leaves...

* A refreshing tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves, flowers and stems. * Perennial; small yellow flowers; source of a golden-yellow dye. It was formerly very popular either on its own or added to China tea, having a peculiar delicacy and aroma.

* Chasmanthium latifolium , known as Woodoats , Inland sea oats , and River oats is a grass native to the eastern United States . * The dried flower heads are sometimes used in flower arranging.

* Edible Uses: Fruit - cooked. It is used in preserves. A lime substitute. Long, dark-green leaves are velvety beneath. * A deciduous Tree growing to 15 m (49ft 3in). Large with an agreeably acid flavour, theymake good preserves and a refreshing lemonade-like...

This shrub is made up of many erect bright green twigs. * Ephedra viridis is a species of Ephedra known by the common names green ephedra and green Mormon tea . The whole plant can be used at much lower concentrations than the isolated constituents -...