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Well known and especially interesting for children. * A very popular curiosity plant. * The trapping mechanism is so specialized that it can distinguish between living prey and non-prey stimuli such as falling raindrops; two trigger hairs must be touched...

Plants can be grown in containers in pond margins but are then best kept in drier conditions over winter. * Prefers a light well-drained soil and a sunny position. Likes plenty of moisture and a rich loamy slightly acid soil.

It is native to the eastern United States. It grows in woods and marshy areas. The inflorescence is a panicle with up to 6 branches. The leaf blades are up to 52 centimeters long and may be hairless to hairy, with a dense coating of hairs behind the ligules.

It is native to the eastern United States. It grows in woods and marshy areas. The inflorescence is a panicle with up to 6 branches. The leaf blades are up to 52 centimeters long and may be hairless to hairy, with a dense coating of hairs behind the ligules.

* Succisa pratensis Moench, also known as Devil's-bit Scabious, is a flowering plant of the genus Succisa in the family Dipsacaceae . * The tender young shoots are sometimes added to spring salads.

It is native to Mauritius , the United States and the west coast of South America in Chile and Peru . The young shoots are used in making a refreshing cold drink. This species contains essential oils , tannins , gums and resins .

It is native to almost every area in North America east of the Rocky Mountains, but excluding the far north of Canada as well as some of the southern United States. A pink variety of this species is sometimes grown commercially.

* Sarracenia leucophylla , also known as the white pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia . Leucophylla produces crimson flowers in the spring before its characteristically small spring pitchers.

* Penthorum sedoides is 10 to 80 centimeters tall. The plant is noted for its effectiveness in treating catarrhal problems of many kinds and has also been used successfully in treating diarrhoea, haemorrhoids and infantile cholera.

The roasted roots are used with dandelion and chicory roots for making coffee. * A perennial herb with 8" leaves covered with prickly hairs; flowers to 1/2", yellowish white, pink, or purplish, in summer, in nodding clusters; rather coarse; likes rich,...

* Ilex glabra is one of the very few evergreen shrubs (broadleaf or narrowleaf) to thrive in wet sites, noted for its evergreen foliage and upright, spreading, and suckering shrub growth habit when in species form.

Some tribes even used to chew the root and then hold rattlesnakes with their teeth and were not bitten so long as the scent persisted. * The leaves have been used to weave baskets and mats.

The tree has a different branching pattern than American Elm, and its heartwood is reddish-brown, giving the tree its alternative common name 'Red Elm'. * The Slippery Elm is a deciduous tree which can grow to 20 m in height with a 50 cm d.b.h. .

Inbreeding reduces flower quantity and size and pollen quality and quantity. It was formerly known as Mimulus guttatus. * Erythranthe guttata, with the common names seep monkeyflower and common yellow monkeyflower, is a yellow bee-pollinated annual or...

* Sometimes called "Moosewood". Mountain maple ACSP2 Summary Duration Perennial Growth Habit Tree, Shrub Native Status L48 (N), CAN (N), SPM (N) Federal T/E Status National Wetland Indicator FACU-, FACU Morphology/Physiology Active Growth Period Spring...

* This heirloom variety matures in about 80-90 days but some stems can be cut before maturity. * Used in cooking, on baked potatoes, and in salads ; flowers rose to rosy purple. It is perennial so will continue to supply fresh chives for years to come.

* An evergreen tree with fan-like branches and scaly leaves. The cones are slender, yellow-green ripening brown, 10-15 mm long and 4-5 mm broad, with 6-8 overlapping scales. Unlike the closely related species, Thuja plicata (Western Redcedar), it is only...

* Seeds In mid to late simmer, the berries turn bright red . * The whole plant, but especially the root, is analgesic, antirheumatic, galactogogue and rubefacient.The plant was often used medicinally by North American Indian tribes, though modern users...

* This heirloom variety matures in about 80-90 days but some stems can be cut before maturity. * Used in cooking, on baked potatoes, and in salads ; flowers rose to rosy purple. It is perennial so will continue to supply fresh chives for years to come.

* It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 10–25 m tall, with a trunk up to 1 m diameter. The plant is seldom used medicinally, but is sometimes included in propriety medicines for chronic prostate and bladder disorders.

Regular use is said to restore vigour, improve the memory and increase longevity. Unlike many herbs with a medicinal use, it is more useful for maintaining good health rather than treating ill health.

* Lobelia cardinalis ( Cardinal Flower ) is a species of Lobelia native to the Americas , from southeastern Canada south through the eastern and southwestern United States , Mexico and Central America to northern Colombia .

* It is grown as an ornamental plant in gardens, where its August flowering attracts butterflies. It is somewhat slow to establish, but if given space to fully develop becomes a magnificent specimen.

It is smaller in size than the Giant Hogweed ( Heracleum mantegazzianum ). * Common Hogweed ( Heracleum sphondylium ) is an herbaceous biennial plant of the family Apiaceae , which grows in the prairies of Eurasia.

This is one of the lightest known woods, it weighs about 12½lb per cubic foot, is lighter than cork and is used for floats etc. It has narrow-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate leaves, 12-20cm long, and small flowers appear in slender greyish catkins in...

* A vigorous plant, spreading by subterranean suckers and forming thickets. * Spiraea tomentosa , commonly known as the Steeplebush , is a plant similar in characteristic to the Hardhack ( S.

This pine is a straight-growing, medium-sized species, attaining heights of 20-35 m. To be able to compete successfully in such habitats, it has adapted greater shade tolerance than most other pines.