Herbaceous Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Washington

* A refreshing tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves, flowers and stems. It was formerly very popular either on its own or added to China tea, having a peculiar delicacy and aroma.

The root is harvested in early autumn and dried for later use. However, some people who weave wool still prefer to use teasels for raising the nap, claiming that the result is better; in particular, if a teasel meets serious resistance in the fabric,...

Oats are a nutrient-rich food associated with lower blood cholesterol when consumed regularly. It has a floury texture and a mild, somewhat creamy flavour. Used as a cereal, it is probably best known as the breakfast cereal porridge but it can also be...

Native to moist prairies and sedge meadows. Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies. All spikes of purple flowers appear in July and August. * The plant is said to be extremely efficacious when used as a local application in the treatment of sore...

* A good butterfly plant. The flowers, 1.5–2.5 cm (1–1 in) in diameter, often fragrant, are white, pink, red, or purple, and borne in summer through fall (autumn). * Prefers a rich moist soil with ample moisture in the summer.

* A low growing, persistent, perennial, cool season legume. 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.

Growing up to a meter tall, it lives in zones 4 to 9 in moist to wet soils. * 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...

* It is extremely palatable to livestock and will decrease without proper grazing management.It spreads via seed and tillering. Virginia wild rye is one of the few cool season native grasses found in the east Texas area.

The flowerhead is 7–15 cm long and 8–10 mm broad, with densely packed spikelets. * Timothy grass is a very variable species that is commonly grown as a hay grass. * Timothy-grass ( Phleum pratense ), is an abundant perennial grass native to most of...

* The leaves can be used as thickeners in soups etc, they can also be dried for later use. The flowers emerge from a tall, upright stem. * The plant is also part of a North American formula called essiac which is a popular treatment for cancer.

It is native to the eastern United States. The inflorescence is a panicle with up to 6 branches. * This rhizomatous perennial grass has stems which can exceed two meters in height.

The leaves have blades that are lanceolate to broadly ovate or elliptic in shape with out lobes. 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...

The leaves have blades that are lanceolate to broadly ovate or elliptic in shape with out lobes. 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...

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

It is a nutritious and palatable forage grass for domestic and wild animals. Shade tolerant and sod forming. * Festuca rubra is a species of grass known by the common name red fescue .

The seed is curved like the beak of a bird, giving the plant its common name. * This grass provides a good graze for cattle and horses throughout most of the year. * This species is a rhizomatous perennial grass with stems growing up to 1.3 meters tall.

It is native to North America, including most of Canada and the United States and part of Mexico, and it is known in Europe and New Zealand as an introduced species . Vulpinoidea grows well in damp to very wet soils in full sun to partial shade.

* 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.

* The plant can be grown for biomass, annual productivity ranges from 2 to 37 tonnes per hectare. * It is widely used for hay and as a forage grass. If soil fertility is low, a large portion of the total production occurs in the spring, but if the soil...

* It is extremely palatable to livestock and will decrease without proper grazing management.It spreads via seed and tillering. Virginia wild rye is one of the few cool season native grasses found in the east Texas area.

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 1845-47.

It has become naturalised in many temperate areas, including the Americas and Australasia as an escape from cultivation. Several cultivar groups have been selected for agricultural use, mostly derived from T.

* The seed is used as a flavouring in liqueurs such as Chartreuse. * Angelica has a long folk-history of use as a medicinal herb, in particular for the treatment of digestive disorders and problems with blood circulation.

* Plants seem to be immune to the predations of rabbits. * The name of this species is based on the cultivated form, the true wild form is A. * Succeeds in ordinary garden soil, preferring a moist but not wet soil and a sunny position.

* The leaves are very rich in vitamins and minerals, especially iron and the vitamins A and C. * 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...

* Differs from the straight species in that the nuts are heart-shaped, thin-shelled, and easily cracked. * Grown mostly as a novelty due to the heart shaped fruit. * Wyman says the kernals come out whole.

The needles are about the same length as on P. Ornelasii" was attributed by Martinez to a 5-leaved form with dark green, longer needles and larger cones, but Farjon and Styles (1997) found these differences to be inconsistent (sometimes larger cones and...