Nitrogen Fixing Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Houston

A poultice of the root has been used in treating sores. The root is cardiac and febrifuge. Both are dried for later use. The leaves are harvested before and during flowering, the pods are harvested when fully ripe in the autumn.

* Makes a good screen or hedge in warm temperate areas. This is one of the best woody species for binding moving sand. * Native to Western Australia, small tree or shrub. * It is used for reclaiming eroded hillsides and wastelands and for stabilizing...

* Elaeagnus angustifolia ( Russian Silverberry , Oleaster , or Russian-olive ) is a species of Elaeagnus , native to western and central Asia , from southern Russia and Kazakhstan to Turkey and Iran .

Plant out in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts, and give some protection from the cold for at least their first few winters. Among the Navajo, the plant is used to make blankets.

Gansu, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, W Shanxi, Xinjiang [Mongolia]. * Native to semiconsolidated sand dunes; 900-2400 m. It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion by wind...

* These shrubs are usually found in wooded and bushy areas, on sunny, warm and dry slopes and around forest edges. * This plant occurs in northeastern Spain and in central Mediterranean countries up to northern Europe and to Asia Minor and Tunisia.

* Black locust is a major honey plant in the eastern US, and, having been taken and planted in France, is the source of the renowned acacia monofloral honey from France. Highly valued, it is used in perfumery.

* A large specimen planted in 1550 stands before the church in the village perche of Fox-Amphoux in the Provence region of southern France. * The flexible thin shoots are used as walking sticks.

It is threatened by habitat destruction, mainly due to introduced grazing mammals. * Its natural habitats are dry forests and low shrublands. * Canavalia pubescens, commonly known as ʻawikiwiki or Lavafield Jack-bean, is a species of flowering plant...

* The wood is compact, dense, heavy, of great strength, tough, elastic, extremely durable. * Sophora is one of the four genera of native legumes in New Zealand; the other three are Carmichaelia , Clianthus , and Montigena .Flowering of Kowhai is staggered,...

* The leaves and flowers are boiled and eaten. * A shrub; red flowers in racemes.

This tree transplants well. * Unlike most species of pine. * Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine ( Pinus mugo ) is a high-altitude European pine , found in the Pyrenees , Alps , Erzgebirge , Carpathians , northern Apennines and Balkan Peninsula mountains from...

* Of symmetrical conical habit; needles stiff, often twisted, dark green, to 7"; cones 2-4 1/2"; native to California, where it is used ornamentally. It is drought-tolerant and grows on dry, rocky soil.

* Mirbelia is a plant genus belonging to the Fabaceae family. It is endemic to Australia, occurring in every mainland state except South Australia.

* A conifer of narrow conical form with green, gray-green, or blue-green foliage; shiny reddish brown bark exfoliates in scales; likes heat, drought, and full sun; best in dry western regions.

* t is a deciduous shrub, growing to 1.5 m tall. * Sweet fern was employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes who used it especially as a poultice to treat a variety of complaints.

It is native to Russia and southern Asia, but it can be found on other continents where it is an introduced species. The ends of branches narrow to spines. * Planted as a wind shelter in Canada.

* An upright bush with evergreen leaves; five-petaled very fragrant flowers at the tips of branches, throughout the year in hot areas; parents of this strain have pink flowers; doesn't mind wind, salt, poor soil; all parts of the plant are highly toxic;...

* It grows to a height of 3 metres and has whorls of striking lipped flowers, that are most commonly orange, but can vary to red, white, and purple. * Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever,...

They have a sweetish-acid taste, and are a nice addition to the salad bowl. These are heart-shaped with a blunt apex, which occasionally has a shallow notch at the tip. * The flowers can be eaten raw.

* Of symmetrical conical habit; needles stiff, often twisted, dark green, to 7"; cones 2-4 1/2"; native to California, where it is used ornamentally. It is drought-tolerant and grows on dry, rocky soil.

* Shiny green leaves. * Bacteria on the roots fix atmospheric nitrogen - whilst this enables the tree to grow well in quite poor soils it also makes some of this nitrogen available to other plants growing nearby.

* It is very cold hardy, coming from Siberia, and will also tolerate drought and saline conditions. They keep their blue color well after drying. * This is an excellent plant to use for cut flowers and dried flowers.

It is native to eastern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan * Evergreen except in cold climates; delicate compound leaves, reddish when new, later blue-green; attractive white flowers in panicles atop the stems, followed by beautiful bright red berries;...

* A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads. * It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico .

It is 2 to 3 centimeters long and contains many seeds. The leaves are made up of many pairs of slightly hairy oval-shaped leaflets, each up to about 3 centimeters long. The fruit is an inflated bladdery pod which dries to a papery texture.

* The leaves are used in the treatment of cancer and hepatoma. * This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. * Cycas revoluta ( sago cycad ), is an attractive plant native to southern Japan .