Herbaceous Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In San Diego

Depending on soil and moisture conditions, it grows to a height of 1 – 3m (3 – 10 ft) . A warm-season grass, big bluestem begins growing in mid to late spring, several weeks after cool-season grasses.

It is a nutritious and palatable forage grass for domestic and wild animals. It is found worldwide and can tolerate many habitats and climates; it generally needs full sun to thrive.

* Seed - sow early spring in a greenhouse. Tolerates semi-shade though fruit production will be reduced. The fruit is about 15mm in diameter. * Prefers a fertile, well-drained, moisture retentive soil in a sunny position.

Growing up to a meter tall, it lives in zones 4 to 9 in moist to wet soils. It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States. * It was believed by some native North American Indian tribes that if the finely ground...

It is also called "agueweed", "feverwort" or "sweating-plant". It has been shown to stimulate resistance to viral and bacterial infections, and reduces fevers by encouraging sweating.

* Phlox paniculata is an erect herbaceous perennial growing to 120 cm (47 in) tall by 100 cm (39 in) wide, with alternate, simple leaves on slender green stems. * A good butterfly plant.

It is also used in treating kidney diseases. All spikes of purple flowers appear in July and August. Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies. It thrives in full sun in ordinary garden soil.

Five to 10 leaves are located along the stem. It tolerates acid soils and thin, infertile soils. * This species is a rhizomatous perennial grass forming clumps of hairy stems up to 1.4 meters tall.

* Scirpus atrovirens, known as common bulrush, is a grass-like, rhizomatous marginal aquatic perennial that is native to moist meadows, bogs, stream/river/lake margins, sloughs, roadside ditches and wet depressions in Eastern and Central North America.

It has been introduced into North America , New Zealand and Australia . * The plant can be grown for biomass, annual productivity ranges from 2 to 37 tonnes per hectare. * Having a deep root system, the plant is also useful for checking soil erosion.

* A refreshing tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves, flowers and stems. * Agrimonia eupatoria is a species of agrimony that is often referred to as common agrimony , church steeples or sticklewort .

* Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or Wild Sensitive Plant) is a herbaceous species of legume widely distributed through the temperate and tropical Americas.

Their flowers are red, yellow or orange and have 5–30 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,...

This shrub is made up of many erect bright green twigs. It is native to the western United States, where it is a member of varied scrub, woodland, and open habitats. The whole plant can be used at much lower concentrations than the isolated constituents...

Filipendula species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species: Emperor Moth, Grey Pug, Grizzled Skipper, Hebrew Character, Lime-speck Pug, Mottled Beauty and The Satellite have all been recorded on Meadowsweet.

Thick growing and winter hardy. * A low growing, persistent, perennial, cool season legume. Thrives in moist soil conditions, Prefers medium fertility soils with a pH between 6.0 - 6.5. Plants produce uncertain numbers of 4 leafed clovers considered lucky.

* Vaccinium arboreum ( Sparkleberry or Farkleberry ) is a species of Vaccinium native to the southeastern United States , from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri , and south to Florida and eastern Texas .

A pink variety of this species is sometimes grown commercially. * New England American-aster is large and showy, growing to 6 or more ft. Showy, bright, rose-purple flowers with orange-yellow centers bloom in profusion at the tips of the leafy branches.

* It is sown as quickly as possible after the removal of a grain crop at the rate of 20-22 kg/ha. The species name incarnatum means "blood red". The flowers are produced throughout the spring and summer, rich red or crimson, congested on an elongated...

The greatest bloom is usually observed in the mid summer, with fruit and seed production starting in the summer and continuing until fall. * Essential component of streambank rehabilitation.

* The seedheads resemble small sweetgum balls but do not grow above the foliage. * This sedge is less prone to summer dieback and remains attractive during warm weather. Its grass-like leaves grow up to 3' tall from short stout rhizomes.

* Lathyrus tuberosus is native to Europe and parts of western Asia. * 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.

The tree is found only in the Santa Ana Mountains of Orange County and in San Diego County within Southern California, and in northern Baja California state of Mexico. Very few mature trees survived but regeneration is occurring by the hundreds to thousands.

* Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer. This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico .

It is a climax species at the lower limits of the coniferous forests, and a seral species in higher elevation mesic forests where more competitive conifers are capable of growing. * In ponderosa pine forests, timber production, livestock grazing, and...

The tree is found only in the Santa Ana Mountains of Orange County and in San Diego County within Southern California, and in northern Baja California state of Mexico. Very few mature trees survived but regeneration is occurring by the hundreds to thousands.

* 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 to cool temperate areas of North America.