Plant For Moist Soil Perennial Plant For Sale In Salinas

* Sarracenia leucophylla , also known as the white pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia . Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World and inhabits moist and low-nutrient longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris ) savannas...

Culms are topped in late spring with dark green spikelets that are clustered into spherical heads. * A sedge with stems to 4 1/2 ft. The terminal inflorescense contains many spikelets that are crowded into dense, nearly spherical heads on rays that angle...

It is waterproof, durable, tough and resinous[11, 61]. * The bark is used to make drinking vessels, canoe skins, roofing tiles etc. * White, gray, or brownish bark; wood used for pulp and plywood; native from Europe to Siberia.

* This flowering shrub is native to the eastern United States, likes a moist shady location. * Well worth growing if you have the right spot to enjoy its fragrant blooms.

It is perennial so will continue to supply fresh chives for years to come. * Used in cooking, on baked potatoes, and in salads ; flowers rose to rosy purple. * Chives ( Allium schoenoprasum ) are the smallest species of the onion family Alliaceae * Allium...

Any trimming should be done in the summer. * Chamaecyparis thyoides (Whitecedar Falsecypress or Atlantic White cedar), is a species of Chamaecyparis, native to the Atlantic coast of North America from Maine south to Georgia, with a disjunct population...

* 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.

* Macedonian pine is also a popular ornamental tree in parks and large gardens, giving reliable steady though not fast growth on a wide range of sites. * Pinus peuce ( Macedonian Pine ) is a species of pine native to the mountains of Macedonia , western...

The uppermost part of the leaf is flared into a lid (the operculum), which prevents excess rain from entering the pitcher and diluting the digestive secretions within. * Sarracenia rubra , also known as the Sweet pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant...

It is commonly found growing in humus-rich areas like marshes, ditches, fens, and beaver dams.The stems are smooth cylinders with light pith filling. The lower leaves are reduced to a brown sheath at the bottom of the stem.

* Some native North American Indian tribes used the root as a protection against rattlesnakes. * The leaves have been used to weave baskets and mats. * A fine blue infusion is obtained from the flowers and this can be used as a litmus substitute to test...

* Wood - very light, soft, close grained. It has narrow-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate leaves, 12-20cm long, and small flowers appear in slender greyish catkins in spring; male and female borne on separate plants.

The panicle inflorescences nod when heavy. The base of the grass grows along the ground and may root at several places. Some mannagrasses are considered weeds while others are endangered in their native habitats.

* A perennial with tubular reddish-purple flowers in small terminal clusters; native to Europe, North Africa, and Siberia. * Serratula tinctoria , commonly known as Saw-wort , is a species in the genus Serratula .

Some botanists treat pond pine as a subspecies of pitch pine. * At the north end of its range, it intergrades and hybridises with pitch pine (P. * The species name is derived from the persistently unopened cones that may remain closed for several years...

They can also be blanched and used in salads. * Spiny stems, leaves to 30" long, white flowers. * It is an upright deciduous small tree or shrub growing up to 6 m in height, native to eastern Russia , China , Korea , and Japan.

It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer. * The Great Blue Lobelia ( Lobelia siphilitica ) is a species within the Campanulaceae family. It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States.

It prefers moist soil. * A deciduous Tree growing to 9 m (29ft 6in). It is hardy to zone 6. It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen from Aug to September. * A small tree grown for its ornamental red new growth and its red and yellow fall color.

* Wood - very light, soft, close grained. It has narrow-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate leaves, 12-20cm long, and small flowers appear in slender greyish catkins in spring; male and female borne on separate plants.

* Features large rosettes of leathery, glossy, toothed, rounded, dark green leaves (to 10" long by 8" wide) which are heart-shaped at the base. Small dark pink flowers in dense panicles appear within or above the foliage on stout stalks to 16" tall in...

* This sedge is very variable in appearance. There are five to ten leaves per stem. * The cooked seed can be used as a rice substitute. In general, it produces short, tough rhizomes and grows in dense clumps.

* Some native North American Indian tribes used the root as a protection against rattlesnakes. * The leaves have been used to weave baskets and mats. * A fine blue infusion is obtained from the flowers and this can be used as a litmus substitute to test...

* Greek Fir is native to the mountains of Greece, primarily in the Peloponnesos and the island of Kefallonia, * It is grown as an ornamental tree in parks and large gardens. * Greek Fir was important in the past for wood for general construction.

The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees, flies. * Clematis serratifolia is a deciduous Climber growing to 3 m (9ft 10in). It is hardy to zone 6.

* A tincture of the plant is somewhat astringent, demulcent, laxative and tonic. * Penthorum sedoides (known by the common name ditch stonecrop), is a perennial forb native to the eastern United States which produces small white flowers in summer.

The leaves are shiny green, ovoid, 3-8 cm long and 2-6 cm broad. * An orange-red to brown dye can be obtained from the bark. * A shrub; shiny dark green leaves to 3" long; Native to Europe.

It weighs 46lb per cubic foot. * Gleditsia aquatica, commonly called water locust, after its habitat of river swamps and slough margins. * A spiny tree with small greenish flowers in 4" racemes; leaves pinnate or bipinnate; name suggests it is a good...