Nitrogen Fixing Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In St Louis

It has thin and smooth bark. * Tolerant of maritime exposure and amenable to training, this species can be grown as a hedge in seaside gardens. A red to brown dye can be obtained from the root bark.

Readily eaten by grazing animals. An open or shrubby growth form with round shaped flower heads attached to stems near the ends. * A deep rooted legume found on a variety of soils in prairies & open woods.

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

Conservation Plant Characteristics Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. * The trees are very quick to establish and will grow at a rate of 1 metre or more per year when young. * Tolerant of clipping and maritime exposure, the alder can be grown in a windbreak...

* Tolerant of dry alkaline soils. A very ornamental plant, it prefers a continental climate with hot summers and cold winters. * This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric...

* An infusion of the bark has been used in the treatment of many complaints such as headaches, rheumatic pains, internal injuries and diarrhoea. * Largest species of alder in North America and one of the largest in the world * The name derives from the...

* 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. * Comptonia is a monotypic genus (containing only Comptonia peregrina ) in the family Myricaceae...

* Gleditsia caspica ( Caspian Locust or Persian Honeylocust ) is a species of Gleditsia native to western Asia , in the Caucasus region of Azerbaijan and northern Iran , close to the Caspian Sea .

* A yellow dye is obtained from the seedpods and the flowers * S. * Grown for its white flowers, borne in late summer after most other flowering trees have long finished flowering.

Wood - heavy, very hard, strong, durable in contact with the soil, coarse-grained. It weighs 46lb per cubic foot. * 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...

Wood - heavy, very hard, strong, durable in contact with the soil, coarse-grained. It weighs 46lb per cubic foot. * 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...

* Make sure to water during the hot months to keep it from fading, and pick off dead flowers to keep the plant blooming till the first frosts of fall. * Sweet pea ( Lathyrus odoratus ) is a flowering plant in the genus Lathyrus in the family Fabaceae...

* It is a herbaceous, short-lived perennial plant, variable in size, growing to 20–80 cm tall. Several cultivar groups have been selected for agricultural use, mostly derived from T.

The vitamin C content is about 12mg per 100g. * Elaeagnus umbellata , also referred to as Japanese Silverberry , Umbellate Oleaster or Autumn-olive , is a species of Elaeagnus native to eastern Asia from the Himalayas east to Japan .

* 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.

* The Cercocarpus betuloides leaves are distinctive in that they have smooth edges from the base to about half way up, then are wavy or toothed to the rounded tip. * This shrub has a typical size of three to five meters - 9-15 feet in height.

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

* Has various edible uses, such as cooking the flowers and obtaining a gum from the trunk * Native to southeastern Australia in New South Wales , Victoria , Tasmania , and the Australian Capital Territory .

Sweet and starchy, it is delicious when baked with a flavour that is somewhat like a sweet potato. * Lathyrus tuberosus, also known as the tuberous pea, tuberous vetchling, earthnut pea, or aardaker, is a small, climbing perennial plant, native in moist...

In Germany over 200 pharmaceutical preparations are made from Echinacea. The plants grow 40 to 70 centimetres (16 to 28 in) tall with spindle-shaped taproots that are often branched.

The vitamin C content is about 12mg per 100g. * Elaeagnus umbellata , also referred to as Japanese Silverberry , Umbellate Oleaster or Autumn-olive , is a species of Elaeagnus native to eastern Asia from the Himalayas east to Japan .

* The name "naked lady" comes from the fact that the flowers emerge from the ground long after the leaves have died back. * The poisonous alkaloid 'colchicine' is extracted from this plant and used to alter the genetic make-up of plants in an attempt...

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

They have a sweetish-acid taste, and are a nice addition to the salad bowl. * The deep pink flowers are produced on year-old or older growth, including the trunk in late spring ( cauliflory ).

Aromatic and somewhat bitter. * Artemisia vulgaris ( mugwort or common wormwood ) is one of several species in the genus Artemisia which have common names that include the word mugwort.

The fruit is about 3mm in diameter with a single large seed. It is a deciduous shrub growing to 1-2 m tall. * Myrica gale is a species of flowering plant in the genus Myrica , native to northern and western Europe and parts of northern North America .

* Native to temperate forests, stream-banks, swamps and roadsides in northeastern Asia and Japan. * A decidious Tree growing to 22 m (72ft 2in) at a fast rate.