Nitrogen Fixing Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Norman

This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green foliage. Super hardy Edelweiss will survive the coldest winter temperatures and the worst summer droughts.

* Perennial wildflower, palm shaped leaves, blooms 2nd and 3rd year and successive seasons from expanding clumps. * Lupinus perennis ( Indian beet , Old maid's bonnets , Blue Lupine, and Sundial lupine ) is a medicinal plant in the Fabaceae family.

Each branch grows for about 10–15 years and re-branches, so a mature plant has an umbrella-like habit. * When the bark or leaves are cut they secrete a reddish resin, one of several sources of substances known as dragon's blood.

* The pulp in the seedpods of carob is very nutritious and, due to its high sugar content, sweet-tasting and mildly laxative. * Carobs are also known as St. John's bread because, according to tradition of some Christians, St. John the Baptist subsisted...

Noxious weed in California. * Plants can be grown as a hedge in exposed positions, tolerating maritime exposure. * Because the plant fixes atmospheric nitrogen, it makes a hedge that enriches the soil rather than depriving it of nutrients.

* The roots can grow deeper than 4 feet (1.2m). This plant can be found growing in well drained soils of prairies, bluffs, and open woodlands. * Plants have an extensive root system, they tolerate poor dry soils and are also wind resistant, they are used...

* A blue dye is obtained from the inner bark. The bark is ground into a powder and then steeped in water in order to obtain the dye. * The "blue" refers to a substance secreted by the inner bark when exposed to air, not to the leaves, which are dark green,...

* The wood of the shrub extremely hard and reddish, from which the common name comes. * This shrub has a typical size of three to five meters - 9-15 feet in height. Betula is the genus for birch, and the species name refers to the birch-like leaves.

* Extremely hardy--a plant lifted from a pot in December spent the winter in zone 5 with its bare rootball frozen to the turf--still bloomed well in the spring; bright yellow flowers in spring; small bright green compound leaves.

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

* Seed propagation - sow spring to mid-summer in situ. * Sweet clover is a major source of nectar for domestic honey bees as hives near sweetclover can yield up to 200 pounds of honey in a year.

* Fontanesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae , usually treated as comprising a single species Fontanesia philliraeoides , though some authors split this into two species (see below).

* The deep pink flowers are produced on year-old or older growth, including the trunk in late spring ( cauliflory ). * The flowers can be eaten raw. * The tree produces long flat pods that hang vertically.

Used as a reclamation species on very poor soils. * The plant contains several biologically active compounds. Readily eaten by grazing animals. Leaves & stems are covered with silver hair.

* An essential oil called Cassie is distilled from the flowers. * While the point of origin is Mexico and Central America the species has a pantropical distribution incorporating Northern Australia and Southern Asia.

* Quercus turbinella is a species of oak known by the common names Sonoran scrub oak and shrub live oak . It is most common in chaparral habitat in central Arizona , through the transition zone of the Mogollon Rim – White Mountains , but also southeast...

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

It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado , where it grows in several habitat types including coniferous forest , chaparral , and various types of woodland.

* It is considered to be a desirable plant in the garden due to its deep blue to violet spring flowers, the attractive light green compound leaves, and also for the somewhat unusual oblong fruits that emerge in the late summer.

* Thorns showed antibacterial activity against a Gram-positive bacterium Xanthomonas vesicatoria and a Gram-negative bacterium Bacillus subtilis. * The pod is used as a soap substitute.

It grows to heights of 10-25 m, and its trunk diameter reaches 0.5 m. The cones remain closed for many years, only opening after the parent tree is killed in a wildfire , thereby allowing the seeds to colonize the bare ground exposed by the fire.

* This is a fast growing evergreen flowering tree. * A yellow dye is obtained from the flowers. * The extensiveroot system of this plant helps to prevent soil erosion. * Has various edible uses, such as cooking the flowers and obtaining a gum from the...

It is useful for vegetating acid soils with a pH of 3.5 to 4.0, as well as alkaline soils of a pH 8.0. Bristly locust is especially adapted to stabilizing soils with active rill and gully erosion.

* Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. * The bark is cathartic, febrifuge and tonic. A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB.

* The deep pink flowers are produced on year-old or older growth, including the trunk in late spring ( cauliflory ). * The flowers can be eaten raw. * The tree produces long flat pods that hang vertically.

* Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. * The bark is cathartic, febrifuge and tonic. A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB.

The flower is purple to yellowish or whitish in color and has a sickle -shaped keel. The fruit is a silky-hairy legume pod up to 5 centimeters long containing several seeds. Each palmate leaf is made up of 5 to 10 leaflets each up to 7 centimeters long.