Perennial Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Houston

* It was believed by some native North American Indian tribes that if the finely ground roots were secretly added to the food of an arguing couple then this would avert a divorce and they would love each other again.

* It is a warm-season grass growing 30-100 cm (12-40 inches) tall, and grows well on mountainous plateaus, rocky slopes, and sandy plains. * A pasture grass occurring widely throughout the Western Hemisphere

This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico . * Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer.

Grasslike leaves (6-11 blades per culm) are broad (to 3/4" wide), linear and yellow green to dark green with rough edges. Culms are topped in late spring with dark green spikelets that are clustered into spherical heads.

The leaf bases are attenuate to cordate in shape and the margins of the leaves are usually entire or serrate, or sometimes lacerate. * The ripe seed is a favorite food of finches in winter.

This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico . * Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer.

* The root is eaten cooked or raw. Sweet and starchy, it is delicious when baked with a flavour that is somewhat like a sweet potato. Taste trials consistently place this root very highly, it is certainly one of our favourites.

* It is native to Canada and the United States, where it is widespread in distribution. * Cool-season grass has broad, pale leaves and very loose, open flowering stalks. It is most commonly found in wet areas such as riverbanks and ponds.

Depending on soil and moisture conditions, it grows to a height of 1 – 3m (3 – 10 ft) . * Big Bluestem is a perennial grass. * Big bluestem is tolerant of a wide range of soils and moisture.

It is native to Europe, Asia and northern Africa, but is widely cultivated and naturalised around the world. * The plant is a low-growing, tufted, hairless grass, with a bunching (or tillering) growth habit.

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.

Fortunei is a shrub or small tree growing to as high as 20 m with a diameter at breast height of about 20 cm. * In cultivation they tend to grow on a single stem that is often leaning and bare towards the bottom, but with dense foliage on the upper half.

Taxol has shown exciting potential as an anti-cancer drug, particularly in the treatment of ovarian cancers. It has thin scaly brown bark. * Modern research has shown that it contains the substance 'taxol' in its shoots and bark.

The grass produces an abundance of seed. * This grass provides a good graze for cattle and horses throughout most of the year. * Panicum anceps is a species of grass known by the common name beaked panicgrass.

Macedonian pine is of great value for research into hybridisation and genetic modification to develop rust resistance in these species; hybrids with eastern white pine inherit some resistance.

A vigorous plant, spreading rapidly by means of runners. The seedlings are very small and slow-growing at first, but then grow rapidly. The woodland strawberry was first cultivated in ancient Persia where farmers knew the fruit as Toot Farangi.

A vigorous plant, spreading rapidly by means of runners. The seedlings are very small and slow-growing at first, but then grow rapidly. The woodland strawberry was first cultivated in ancient Persia where farmers knew the fruit as Toot Farangi.

* The plant is native to southeast Africa, but it has been widely naturalized. * The name "balloonplant" is an allusion to the swelling bladder-like follicles which are full of seeds.

* A manna is exuded from the leaves (from the bark as well according to some reports) as a result ofinsect damage. The red gum or manna exuding from cracks in the bark is eaten eagerly by boys.

It tolerates acid soils and thin, infertile soils. It can be used to revegetate reclaimed land such as mine spoils. * The seeds of deertongue attract many types of birds, such as turkeys.

Its grass-like leaves grow up to 3' tall from short stout rhizomes. * The seedheads resemble small sweetgum balls but do not grow above the foliage. * This carex is common throughout southern and central Missouri in the moist soil beside ponds, streams...

Very few mature trees survived but regeneration is occurring by the hundreds to thousands. * The Tecate cypress is the only plant on which the rare Thorne's Hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus thornei) lays its eggs.

In Missouri, it is typically found along woodland streams, open wooded hillsides, upland ridges, thickets and glades primarily in limestone areas south of the Missouri River and throughout the Ozarks (Steyermark).

It is found at elevations ranging from 700 ft to 6700 ft. The seed is the smallest of this genus. * A shrub or small tree, thick-shelled round nuts, 3/4"; native to south central U.S. and northern Mexico.

* Lespedeza cuneata is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names Chinese bushclover and sericea lespedeza, or just sericea. Please check with your local regulations before purchasing seed for prohibitions or restrictions...

* In forest stands, black oak begins to produce seeds at about age 20 and reaches optimum production at 40 to 75 years. It is a consistent seed producer with good crops of acorns every 2 to 3 years.

* American hazelnut prefers full sun for best growth and development. * Fall color is quite variable, ranging from attractive combinations of orange, rose, purplish red, yellow and green to undistinguished, dull yellowish green.