Herbaceous Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Rhode Island

* 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.

* The root is eaten cooked or raw. Its typical habitat is rough grassy places, broad-leaved woodland, forest margins, hedgerows and banks. Sweet and starchy, it is delicious when baked with a flavour that is somewhat like a sweet potato.

On moist, rich soils. * Loosely tufted perennial, short lived bunchgrass. Adapted to cool climates as a cool seasons turfgrass. A tall, tufted grass similar to tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea).

Grasslike leaves (6-11 blades per culm) are broad (to 3/4" wide), linear and yellow green to dark green with rough edges. It typically forms a slowly-spreading clump of upright stems (culms) to 4-5' tall.

* The flowers are demulcent, diuretic and emollient. * A refreshing tea is made from the flower petals. * The plants are easily grown from seed, and readily self-seed. * A nutritious starch is obtained from the root.

* New England American-aster is large and showy, growing to 6 or more ft. * Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (formerly Aster novae-angliae), commonly known as the New England aster, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the Asteraceae family.

Like other members of the genus, it is mildly laxative and holds out potential as a long term treatment for chronic disease, in particular that of the gastro-intestinal tract. The other herbs included in the formula are Arctium lappa, Ulmus rubra and...

The paired spikelets are generally oval in shape and measure a few millimeters long. The inflorescence is a panicle with up to 6 branches. * This grass grows in disturbed, wet habitat types such as ditches.

Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft.

* Blue-joint grass stands up well in winter. * This perennial, clump-forming grass grows to a height of 3-5 ft. * Calamagrostis canadensis is a species of grass known by the common names bluejoint and Canadian reedgrass .

* It is often used as an ornamental plant. * Gomphocarpus physocarpus, commonly known as balloonplant, balloon cotton-bush, bishop's balls, nailhead, or swan plant, is a species of milkweed.

Prick them out into individual pots when they are large enough to handle and plant them out during the summer. In Turkey hundreds of tons of wild fruit are harvested annually, mainly for export.

* Phacelia tanacetifolia is a species of phacelia known by the common names lacy phacelia, blue tansy or purple tansy. * It is also attractive to hoverflies (family Syrphidae), which are useful as biological pest control agents because they eat aphids...

* Rudbeckia fulgida are perennial herbaceous plants growing up to 120 cm tall, growing from rosettes that develop at the end of stolons. The leaves have blades that are lanceolate to broadly ovate or elliptic in shape with out lobes.

They are taken both internally and externally in the treatment of syphilitic, cancerous and other foul ulcers. * The flowers and leaves are diaphoretic, diuretic and rubefacient. Caution is advised since this is a poisonous plant.

Annua), has flowers with bright red petals. * The generic name Adonis refers to the mythic character Adonis, a lover of the goddess Aphrodite or Venus. According to the Metamorphoses of Ovid the anemone, also of the family Ranunculaceae, was created when...

Taxol has shown exciting potential as an anti-cancer drug, particularly in the treatment of ovarian cancers. It has thin scaly brown bark. * It is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree, growing 10-15 m tall and with a trunk up to 50 cm diameter, rarely...

* Timothy grass is a very variable species that is commonly grown as a hay grass. It grows to 50–150 cm tall, with leaves up to 45 cm long and 1 cm broad. * Timothy-grass ( Phleum pratense ), is an abundant perennial grass native to most of Europe except...

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

* White clover ( Trifolium repens ) is a species of clover native to Europe , North Africa , and West Asia . * A low growing, persistent, perennial, cool season legume. Thrives in moist soil conditions, Prefers medium fertility soils with a pH between...

The species name campestre means "of the fields". * 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...

It is also called "agueweed", "feverwort" or "sweating-plant". * Eupatorium perfoliatum or (Common) Boneset is a common perennial plant native to the Eastern United States and Canada , with a range from Nova Scotia to Florida , as well as from Louisiana...

* Flowering period during the summer is long, attrracting many pollinators. * Does well along woods edges as a background plant in perennial gardens. * A poultice of the bruised root has been used as a dressing and salve on burns, inflammations and cuts.

* The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed). It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant. * Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer.

* A manna is exuded from the leaves (from the bark as well according to some reports) as a result ofinsect damage. * Quick growing, extremely tall, grows well in poor soil; grayish-white bark, creamy-white branches; bark produces a "manna" eaten by natives;...

* It was believed by some native North American Indian tribes that if the finely ground roots were secretly added to the food of an arguing couple then this would avert a divorce and they would love each other again.

* Tall redtop or Purple-top is a 2 1/2-7 ft. The grass is often confused with Johnson grass . Tall perennial grass with drooping branches bearing widely spaced reddish-purple spikelets.