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* Dark purple or purplish blue flowers in spikes; fast, coarse growth, good for dry, poor soil. * It is found throughout eastern Canada, northern Mexico, and most of the continental United States.

* This is one of ther best species for soil stabilization and reviatalization in cold arid zones where few plants will survive. It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion...

It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bloody stool, urorrhoea and bloody sputum. It is used applied externally to burns, bleeding due to traumatic injuries, haemorrhoids and...

* Ononis spinosa is a plant belonging to the family Fabaceae , that is commonly known as spiny restharrow or just restharrow . It is found throughout much of Europe but seldom as far north as Scotland .

Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay. Thick growing and winter hardy. Thrives in moist soil conditions, Prefers medium fertility soils with a pH between 6.0 - 6.5. Plants produce uncertain numbers of 4 leafed clovers considered lucky.

* The tree produces long flat pods that hang vertically. * The flowers can be eaten raw. * The leaves appear shortly after the first flowers emerge. The flower buds are pickled and used as a condiment.

It is found to succeed better when only the surface of the soil is stirred by the scarifier and harrow than when a plowing is given. The flowers are produced throughout the spring and summer, rich red or crimson, congested on an elongated spike inflorescence...

Arctium lappa is the main species used, though this species has similar properties. The dried root of one year old plants is the official herb, but the leaves and fruits can also be used.

* This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby.

Contain poisonous chemicals similar to those found in many other genera in the Ranunculaceae. The Autumn Adonis, pheasant's-eye (A. Annua), has flowers with bright red petals. According to the Metamorphoses of Ovid the anemone, also of the family Ranunculaceae,...

The panicles often hang limply, which is how the plant got its common name; the clusters look as though they are nodding. The flowers are fragrant and range in colour from pink to mauve, sometimes with a white base; they are produced in early summer on...

* This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns. * Astragalus sinicus is widely used on rice land as a winter crop.

The flowers are pink, borne in summer. * Rosa palustris is a shrub with alternate, pinnately compound leaves , on thorny stems.

* The inflorescence is a raceme of generally pea-like yellow flowers about 3 centimeters long. The fruit is an inflated bladdery pod which dries to a papery texture. * The shrub takes a rounded form and has many branches covered in deciduous leaves.

* Dark purple or purplish blue flowers in spikes; fast, coarse growth, good for dry, poor soil. * It is found throughout eastern Canada, northern Mexico, and most of the continental United States.

* Succeeds in ordinary garden soil, preferring a moist but not wet soil and a sunny position. Flabellata pumila. * 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...

The fruit is a red rose hip which may be over a centimeter long. The plant reproduces sexually by seed and vegetatively by sprouting from the root crown, layering , and by producing root suckers .

* Tolerates most soils and conditions, including poor soils and amongst the roots and under the drip of trees. Grows well in heavy clay soils. * Western snowberry is grown for use in native plant and wildlife gardens, and as a bird food plant in habitat...

* Tolerates most soils and conditions, including poor soils and amongst the roots and under the drip of trees. Grows well in heavy clay soils. * Western snowberry is grown for use in native plant and wildlife gardens, and as a bird food plant in habitat...

It is perhaps best known for its use as a hair tonic whilst the root is also taken internally as a treatment for non-malignant swollen glands and especially for mastitis. * The root is said to have a beneficial effect on the liver, stomach and spleen...

* The fruit can be eaten raw, cooked in pies, cakes etc or fermented into cider. * The leaves contain up to 2.4% of an antibacterial substance called 'phloretin'.This inhibits the growth of a number of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria in as low...

It is the type species of the subgenus Padus with flowers in racemes , which are hermaphroditic and pollinated by bees and flies; it is a deciduous small tree or large shrub 8–16 m tall.

* The plant is high in certain antioxidants. * During World War II in the United States Rosa canina was planted in victory gardens. * The dried leaves are used as a tea substitute.

Flower stalks are sturdy and straight, with solitary terminal flowers, and are smooth or slightly hairy. The basal leaves are long and slender or very narrowly lanceolate. * Echinacea paradoxa ( Bush's purple coneflower , Yellow Coneflower ) is a perennial...

Paniculate thyrses terminal, apically branched, 10-20 cm, 1- or 2-ramous; rachis and pedicels glabrous or with russet short hairs; pedicels short, jointed at apex. * Many plants in this genus contain compounds of interest for their antitumour activity

It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bloody stool, urorrhoea and bloody sputum. It is used applied externally to burns, bleeding due to traumatic injuries, haemorrhoids and...

Experimentally, it has demonstrated antitumor activity against Walker-256 carcinosarcoma and is also reportedly effective in lowering blood cholesterol levels. Readily eaten by grazing animals.