Nitrogen Fixing Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Pittsburgh

An open or shrubby growth form with round shaped flower heads attached to stems near the ends. Readily eaten by grazing animals. Experimentally, it has demonstrated antitumor activity against Walker-256 carcinosarcoma and is also reportedly effective...

* Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance. * They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods.

It's habitat is being destroyed and it is currently listed as a threatened species. Order: Fabales Bromhead family: Fabaceae Lindl. Agardh subclass: Magnoliidae Novak ex Takht. * This is a beautiful flowering shrub with an extremely limited range in North...

The shrub's white flowers are small, clustered, and mildly scented. * Native American Californians used the hard wood for arrows, digging, spearing fish, and digging. * The wood of the shrub extremely hard and reddish, from which the common name comes.

This plant can be found growing in well drained soils of prairies, bluffs, and open woodlands. * Resinous pustules on the plant contain 'amorpha', a contact and stomachic insecticide that also acts as an insect repellent.

Japonicum contains the isoflavone glycoside sophoricoside. * A very ornamental and fast growing tree, it grows best in hot summers. * Cultivated in China for the rutin contained in its leaves and ovaries.

In comparison with most other shrubs it will excel in seedling vigor. Its value for wildlife food is minimal, but is a very attractive shrub when in bloom. Other common names include Rose acacia and Rose locust .

It is native to the western United States from Washington to California , where it grows mostly in mountain habitat. Each palmate leaf is made up of 5 to 10 leaflets each up to 7 centimeters long.

* 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. * t is a deciduous shrub, growing to 1.5 m tall.

* Carobs are also known as St. John's bread because, according to tradition of some Christians, St. John the Baptist subsisted on them in the wilderness. * It grows well in warm temperate and subtropical areas, and tolerates hot and humid coastal areas.

Plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts. * Succeeds in most fertile soils but they must be perfectly drained and the plant requires a very sunny position.

It is native to Europe and North Africa, but it is known on other continents where it is grown as an ornamental and used in landscaping for erosion control. The fruit is an inflated bladdery pod which dries to a papery texture.

* Trees have extensive root systems and are sometimes planted on the banks of streams in order to prevent erosion.

* The River Oak is an attractive evergreen tree with fine greyish green needle-like foliage that grows to a height of 60 metres (200 ft) with a spread of about 10 metres. It is much planted in Egypt for protecting roads from the sand.

The stems grow slowly and often tightly together, eventually reaching 2-5 m tall with a trunk diameter of 20-25 cm. Plants have been used to form hedges in Mediterranean areas. * Easily grown in a rich strong loam enriched with leafmold and sand.

* It is found throughout eastern Canada, northern Mexico, and most of the continental United States. * Plants have an extensive root system and are also fairly wind tolerant, they can be planted as a windbreak and also to prevent soil erosion.

You'll be thrilled with the first flush of 3'' purple blooms from June to October. The Purple D'Oro daylily is a wonderfully colored reblooming daylily. Growing only 20'' tall, you will be able to find several places for it in your garden.

In comparison with most other shrubs it will excel in seedling vigor. Its value for wildlife food is minimal, but is a very attractive shrub when in bloom. Other common names include Rose acacia and Rose locust .

This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens. * Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun. * Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese...

The green, ovate leaves grow in opposite pairs. It is indigenous to southeast Europe and southwest Asia . A yellow-orange dye is obtained from the flowers. * A low shrub with dark green evergreen leaves, shiny on the undersides; 2-3" flowers, bright yellow,...

It has very soft serrated leaves that can grow up to 4 inches wide. * It is native to tropical Africa and southern India. It can also be found growing abundantly in much of Latin America and the West Indies.

* A hardy perennial with gray or blue-gray rather frilly leaves, extremely fragrant (although many dislike the pungent scent); woody base; causes dermatitis in some people, for dry sunny places; also used medicinally and as a condiment; inconspicuous...

The bark is orange-red, thick and deeply fissured at the base of the trunk, and thin and flaky in the upper crown. Turkish pine is also known by several other common names, Calabrian pine (from a naturalised population of the pine in Calabria in southern...

Worldwide, the figure is about 90% of all production for this species. * Gossypium hirsutum , known as Upland Cotton or Mexican Cotton , is the most widely planted species of cotton in the United States, constituting some 95% of all cotton production.

* Native to southeastern U.S.; lavender-pink or bluish flowers from mid- to late summer, followed by bright purple, violet, or magenta fruits in great profusion. * American Beautyberry ( Callicarpa americana ) is an open-habit, native shrub of the Southern...

* A spiny tree with small greenish flowers in 4" racemes; leaves pinnate or bipinnate; name suggests it is a good choice for wet areas; native to southeast U.S. * Having an extensive root system, it is planted for stabilizing wet banks and marshes.

* In flower from Jul to August, and the seeds ripen from Sep to November. * A decidious Tree growing to 25m. * The bark is smooth and light grey, often becoming somewhat rougher with light tan fissures as the tree ages.