Perennial Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Topeka

(Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Hubei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mong) all in China. * Native to forest margins, grassy slopes; 400--2700 m.

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

* It is a popular garden plant both for its flowers and for its fragrance. * The whole plant contains a very aromatic essential oil, giving out a scent somewhat like lemon peel. Its leaves resemble those of an Ash tree.

(Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Hubei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mong) all in China. * Native to forest margins, grassy slopes; 400--2700 m.

The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2-3 cm broad. * Asclepias tuberosa is a species of milkweed native to eastern North America . Its main use in present day herbalism is for relieving the pain and inflammation of pleurisy.

(Leguminosae) have been used in traditional medicine for the treatment of inflammatory diseases including swelling, suppuration, carbuncle and skin diseases. * Thorns showed antibacterial activity against a Gram-positive bacterium Xanthomonas vesicatoria...

* The leaves are used for flavouring rice dumplings. * Requires a well-drained sandy soil and a sunny position. Established plants are drought tolerant.

Angustifolia , but plants often grow taller, ranging from 1.5 to 2.5 ft (45 to 75 cm) tall, with some growing 3 feet (90 cm) or more tall. * The flower heads are from ¾ to 3 inches (2 to 7.6 cm) wide with pale rose-purple or nearly white colored petals.

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

It is closely related to Juniperus communis (Common Juniper) and Juniperus conferta (Shore Juniper), the latter sometimes treated as a variety or subspecies of J. A very ornamental plant.

* Dracaena draco, the Canary Islands dragon tree or drago, is a subtropical tree-like plant in the genus Dracaena, native to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, and locally in western Morocco, and introduced to the Azores.

The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2-3 cm broad. * Asclepias tuberosa is a species of milkweed native to eastern North America . Its main use in present day herbalism is for relieving the pain and inflammation of pleurisy.

The leaves have blades that are lanceolate to broadly ovate or elliptic in shape with out lobes. * Rudbeckia fulgida are perennial herbaceous plants growing up to 120 cm tall, growing from rosettes that develop at the end of stolons.

The plants are very cold tolerant, but they can be damaged when dormant if the soil is too moist. Members of this genus are rarely if ever troubled by browsing deer or rabbits. * The species, from central Europe and Russia, has blue-purple, lavender,...

* Tian Nan Xing has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years and is valued especially for its beneficial affect upon the chest. When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root.

* 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 beautyberries produce large clusters of purple berries, which birds and deer eat,...

* This tree is remarkable for the number and length of the spines growing on its trunk, which makes it the most formidably armed of temperate trees. * Gleditsia caspica ( Caspian Locust or Persian Honeylocust ) is a species of Gleditsia native to western...

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. Fast growing, showy color.

* Typically, this species of grass has a long growing season and ranges between 2 to 4 feet (1.2 m) tall in seedhead stage. It is ideal for the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas,...

The many inflorescences have closely spaced whorls of small flowers with brightly colored calyces. Spreading growth to 24in. Many of them are hardy to –18 °C., with flowers ranging in color from violet, to violet-blue, rosy pink, and even white.

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

Useful in coastal landscapes, it adds texture and unique architecture to large scale plantings. Dark green needles, to 18" (9" in older trees), in tufts at ends of branchlets; hangs on to its cones (to 20") for as long as 20 years; native from Virginia...

The seeds are dispersed when birds eat the cones, digesting the fleshy scales and passing the hard seeds in their droppings. Common Juniper has needle-like leaves in whorls of three; the leaves are green, with a single white stomatal band on the inner...

* Because of its isolation in a remote area, it escaped discovery until 1964. * A very attractive tree. * Seedlings have up to 24 cotyledons on germination (the most of any plant)!

* In recent years, this species has been extensively used in Bonsai. * Carpinus orientalis (Oriental Hornbeam) is a hornbeam native from southeastern Europe to northern Iran and occurs usually on hot dry sites at lower altitudes in comparison to the European...

Flowers are heart-shaped and 1–2 inches (3–5 cm) long, with pink outer petals and white inner petals , hanging in a horizontal raceme . They bloom from late spring to early summer .

The foliage grows in dense, usually moderately decumbent and pendulous sprays of bright green, very slender, slightly flattened shoots. * Cupressus funebris is cultivated as an ornamental tree, due to its graciously weeping form and texture, and planted...