Herbaceous Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Seattle

* 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.

* The seeds are "negatively photoblastic", or photodormant, and will only germinate in darkness. * This is an annual herb which grows erect to a maximum height near 100 centimeters.

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

The root is harvested in early autumn and dried for later use. The dried flower heads were attached to spindles, wheels, or cylinders, sometimes called teasel frames, to raise the nap on fabrics (that is, to tease the fibres).

* The Great Blue Lobelia ( Lobelia siphilitica ) is a species within the Campanulaceae family. It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States.

* This species is a rhizomatous perennial grass forming clumps of hairy stems up to 1.4 meters tall. * Dichanthelium clandestinum is a species of grass known by the common name deertongue.

* The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed). 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 .

The terminal inflorescense contains many spikelets that are crowded into dense, nearly spherical heads on rays that angle out in different directions. * A sedge with stems to 4 1/2 ft.

* The seedheads resemble small sweetgum balls but do not grow above the foliage. * 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 species is native to most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains , excluding the drier parts of the Prairies . * Asclepias syriaca , commonly called Common Milkweed , Butterfly flower , Silkweed , Silky Swallow-wort , Virginia Silkweed , is...

* This is an Heirloom favorite. It is an early bush zucchini that produces a high yield of straight dark green cylindrical fruit. * They should be harvested when under 10 inches for the best flavor.

Southern Wild Senna (S. * Clusters of light yellow to orange flowers atop a sparsely branched perennial or in axils of compound leaves. Occidentalis), are also found in the East. Marilandica) is a more southern species with fewer flowers and bigger leaflets.

* A drought resistant plant once established. * It succeeds on shallow chalky soils. * Tolerant of constant cutting, this plant is often grown in lawns. * It is a perennial plant sometimes found in acidic bogs , for example in the Portlethen Moss , Scotland.

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

* Curled Dock ( Rumex crispus ), also known as Curly Dock, Yellow Dock, Sour Dock, Narrow Dock , sometimes as "narrow-leaved dock" (which properly refers to a variant of Sorrel ), and ambiguously as " garden patience " , is a perennial flowering plant...

Individual plants can produce as many as 400-1800 fruits with three seeds each. It is the source of a high quality charcoal that is used by artists. Fruit is small black berries that drop in late summer to early fall.

* Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer. * The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed). This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in...

* Spartina pectinata is a species of cordgrass known by the common name prairie cordgrass . It is native to central North America. * Of upright, arching form; green leaves; flowers in late summer, flowering section of spike to 15" long; likes full sun...

* This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China. * Astragalus sinicus is widely used on rice land as a winter crop. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China.

* The cooked seed can be used as a rice substitute. There are five to ten leaves per stem. In general, it produces short, tough rhizomes and grows in dense clumps. * Scirpus cyperinus, commonly called woolgrass, is a grass-like, rhizomatous, emergent...

* Trifolium pratense is the national flower of Denmark and the state flower of Vermont. * Trifolium pratense (red clover) is a species of clover native to Europe, Western Asia and northwest Africa, but planted and naturalised in many other regions.

Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay. * White clover ( Trifolium repens ) is a species of clover native to Europe , North Africa , and West Asia . Thick growing and winter hardy.

It is typically found in moister sites than Canadian wildrye, and will tolerate more shading. * Elymus virginicus, or Virginia wildrye, is a perennial bunchgrass located in Virginia and the eastern United States.

It is native to the low-elevation woodlands of the Himalayas in China , India , and surrounding nations and it is naturalized in parts of Australia and New Zealand . * Cornus elliptica is an evergreen to semi-evergreen dogwood that is native to China.

* The Great Blue Lobelia ( Lobelia siphilitica ) is a species within the Campanulaceae family. It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States.

* The tops of the stems are occupied with spreading, multibranched inflorescences bearing many small, oval-shaped spikelets. * It is native to Canada and the United States, where it is widespread in distribution.

* The fruit has a bitter-sweet flavour, tasting like an over-ripe banana. It is native to the low-elevation woodlands of the Himalayas in China , India , and surrounding nations and it is naturalized in parts of Australia and New Zealand .